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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: MIRREN,HELEN EAN: 0786936227932 Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Walt Disney Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 04, 2004 Running Time: 108 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: 2003 Sales Rank: 3226 MPN: DISD32412D
Description: 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.
Amazon.com: 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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Calendar Girls
This is a feel-good movie which makes you laugh and cry, and the best part, no violence, no blood and no explicit sex. Helen Mirren shows once again that she is a great actress, regardless of the role she plays.
Rating: - Witty and utterly charming
Calendar Girls
During a business trip to Washington, D.C., I saw the original Rylstone calendar on which the movie was based. I was intrigued, to say the least so had to see the film when it came out. Later, I bought the DVD (this, like a similar film--The Full Monty--is one you'll want to have in your DVD library).
The film is loosely based on a true story, of a North Yorkshire District Women's Institute group who posed for a caalendar to raise money for a hospital waiting ... Read More
Rating: - Excellent Movie
Great story. Makes a great gift for most any woman. Over the age of 35. Younger than that might just not get it. Excellent movie!
Rating: - Calendar Girls review
This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. The acting is wonderful. All the ladies just seem to click. The story is very heart warming and one that most people can relate to. I could watch this movie over and over and laugh and cry everytime I see it.Calendar Girls
Rating: - Great Movie
This is a great movie about women. It definitely lifts your spirit and makes your day. This film celebrates the beauty of a woman. Ladies, if you feel like you are ever old for something, watch this film...
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