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Director:
Writers:
Juliette Towhidi (written by) and
Tim Firth (written by)
Release Date:
12 September 2003 (Norway) more
Tagline:
They dropped everything for a good cause. more
Plot:
A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 12 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(40 articles)
Coleen Nolan 'turned down Calendar Girls'
(From digitalspy. 6 November 2009, 8:40 AM, PST)
Kelly Brook’s Topless Cupcakes
(From HorrorYearbook. 4 November 2009, 10:54 AM, PST)
User Comments:
a joyous comedy more (129 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Helen Mirren | ... | Chris | |
| Julie Walters | ... | Annie | |
| John Alderton | ... | John | |
| Linda Bassett | ... | Cora | |
| Annette Crosbie | ... | Jessie | |
| Philip Glenister | ... | Lawrence | |
| Ciarán Hinds | ... | Rod (as Ciaran Hinds) | |
| Celia Imrie | ... | Celia | |
| Geraldine James | ... | Marie | |
| Penelope Wilton | ... | Ruth | |
| George Costigan | ... | Eddie | |
| Graham Crowden | ... | Richard | |
| John Fortune | ... | Frank | |
| Georgie Glen | ... | Kathy | |
| Angela Curran | ... | May |
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for nudity, some language and drug-related material.
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Runtime:
108 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Certification:
Iceland:L | UK:12 (video rating) (2003) | UK:12A (original rating) | Hungary:14 | Finland:K-3 | South Korea:15 | Taiwan:R-12 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG | Brazil:12 | Canada:PG | Germany:o.Al. (bw) | Hong Kong:IIA | Netherlands:AL | New Zealand:PG | Norway:A | Peru:PT | Philippines:PG-13 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:14 (canton of the Grisons) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | USA:PG-13 (certificate #39650)
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Trivia:
Anne Reid was offered a major role, but choose to do Roger Michell's The Mother (2003/I) instead. more
Goofs:
Continuity: The photographer of the calendar shoot used a 35mm camera, yet the proofs are contact prints of medium-format roll-film negatives. more
Quotes:
Chris:
Course you've got a body worth looking at.
Ruth:
Just look at that parking.
Chris:
Ruth.
Ruth:
Doesn't it annoy you when people take up two spaces.
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Soundtrack:
You Upset Me Baby more
FAQ
How does it end?more
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One of the most delightful films of recent years, `Calendar Girls,' a distaff version of `The Full Monty,' is the true story of a group of middle-aged English women who became international celebrities when they designed and posed for a nude fundraising calendar that sold millions of copies worldwide. Julie Walters and Helen Mirren head a wonderful cast, with Walters as a woman whose husband dies of leukemia and Mirren as her best friend who comes up with the idea of the calendar as a way of both honoring his memory and raising money for the local hospital.
The risk for any `feel good' comedy is that it will become cloying, coy or cutesy. Luckily, `Calendar Girls' boasts an enormously witty screenplay and first-rate performances by its highly gifted cast. Each of the `girls' is given her own unique personality so that we see them not just as a group, united in this inspiring endeavor, but as individuals working through their own personal demons on the rode to the project's completion. The women face the expected roadblocks and snafus in the form of `shocked,' disapproving voices in the community, but their belief in the rightness of their cause brushes all such problems aside.
This charming film provides more genuine, out-and-out laughs than almost any comedy of recent times. `Calendar Girls' is heartwarming, touching and inspiring and what more could one ask from a `feel-good' film than that?