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Calendar Girls (2003) 6.8
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6.8/10 from 14,149 users
Metascore: 60/100
Reviews: 135 user | 109 critic | 30 from Metacritic.com A Women's Institute chapter's fundraising effort for a local hospital by posing nude for a calendar becomes a media sensation. Director:Nigel Cole |
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Rod
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Frank
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Middle aged Chris Harper and Annie Clarke are best friends. They spend much of their time at their local Knapely, Yorkshire County chapter of the Women's Institute (WI), whose motto is "enlightenment, fun and friendship". Although they like most of the women at the WI (the friendship part), they, but the perceived flaky Chris in particular, hold the way Marie, the local president, runs the chapter with derision. They find much of what goes on there, especially the monthly presentations, banal and devoid of enlightenment and fun. Equally as banal was last year's fund-raising calendar, featuring local bridges, which raised a meager £75.60, with this year's proposed calendar, local churches, promising to be even more so. After Annie's husband John passes away from leukemia, Chris wants the WI to provide a memorial in his memory: a new sofa for the family room at the hospital. The one Chris wants to buy costs £999, which she proposes to raise by changing the fund-raising calendar to one ... Written by Huggo
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They dropped everything for a good cause. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG-13 for nudity, some language and drug-related material | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
12 September 2003 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
Chicas de calendario See more »Box Office
Budget:
$10,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$458,730 (Spain) (9 January 2004)Gross:
$31,011,616 (USA) (9 April 2004)Company Credits
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Cora: It's not naked. It's nude.
Marie: What's the difference?
Celia: Art.
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Written by Naomi Neville
© Jarb Publishing Co
By kind permission of Warner/Chappell Music Ltd.
Performed by The Meters
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products/Warner Strategic Marketing UK
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Anne Reid was offered a major role, but chose to do Roger Michell's The Mother instead. See more »Goofs
The flowers behind Annie while she is talking to Marie at home. See more »Quotes
Marie: Naked!Cora: It's not naked. It's nude.
Marie: What's the difference?
Celia: Art.
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Crazy Credits
The cast list is split into two halves. The first thirteen actors/characters (Helen Mirren/Chris to John Fortune/Frank) are followed by the main crew such as the producers, writer and director, with the remaining cast appearing after this. See more »Soundtracks
"Ride Your Pony"Written by Naomi Neville
© Jarb Publishing Co
By kind permission of Warner/Chappell Music Ltd.
Performed by The Meters
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products/Warner Strategic Marketing UK
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Based on a true story, eleven members of a women's institute group decide to pose nude for a rather untraditional annual calendar to raise money for charity.
With an all star cast lead by Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, we go on a journey through the ridicule and resistance that the ladies had to endure to achieve this amazing feat, which ultimately raised millions.
Calendar Girls is brilliantly performed and directed, and it has many heart wrenching tales that lie beneath the main story, each pertaining to the girls own reasons and drives to fight for what eventually became a mammoth success.
Heart Warming, Funny, Charming and Entertaining, undoubtedly a winner on every level.
8/10