 | Calendar Girls
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Sales Rank: 6,180
Actors: Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie
Director: Nigel Cole
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Features: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Number of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Release Date: May 4, 2004
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Studio: Walt Disney Video |
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| In the sensible yet elegant hands of actresses Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, Calendar Girls walks a fine line between sappiness and snickering and ends up both wonderfully funny and gently touching. When her best friend Annie Walters, Billy Elliot loses her husband, Chris Mirren, Prime Suspect, Gosford Park cooks up a scheme to memorialize him: They and their friends--all fiftysomething women--will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular, but the success may drive a wedge between the two women's friendship. Based on an actual event, Calendar Girls carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the calendar's media explosion, becoming a surprisingly moving fable of loss, determination, and the perils of fame. And let's face it--Helen Mirren is one of the wittiest and sexiest women alive, clothes on or not. --Bret Fetzer | | When 12 ordinary members of the Women's Institute, a prim and proper local ladies' club, decide they need to find a more compelling way to raise money for a new charity, they turn to their traditional annual calendar and give it a very untraditional twist. Behind the usual baked goods, the apple pressing, and the flower arrangements are the women -- completely nude! Starring 2003 Golden Globe nominee Helen Mirren Best Actress, CALENDAR GIRLS and Julie Walters HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, CALENDAR GIRLS is a terrifically entertaining comedy. And that's the naked truth. |
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