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Chris & annie are best friends living in yorkshire when annies husband dies or leukemia. Chris enlists the help of the womans institute in a fund-raiser for the local hospital. Her idea is to produce a calendar with different woman photograped for each month. The radical twist - the woman will be in the nude! Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 08/10/2007 Starring: Helen Mirren Linda Bassett Run time: 108 minutes Rating: Pg13
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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
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Calender Girls December 27, 2008
G. Peery (Anderson,CA USA)
I absolutly love this movie i bought one for me and one for my Mom it is one of her favorites.
Calendar Girls December 9, 2008
jess johnson (OH)
The product exceeded satisfaction. Was shippped faster than noted withh confirmation. Packaging looked new. Have not looked at movie yet.
Calendar Girls November 14, 2008
Carmen C. Gorgas (Denver, CO USA)
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.
Witty and utterly charming September 15, 2008
S. Barrett (Santa Cruz, CA)
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 room sofa where John, the husband of one of the members had died of leukemia.
It is a story of love and compassion, and also of the problems brought on by fame. It is heartwarming, humorous, witty, touching, and utterly charming.
There's nudity, but presented in a tasteful way. You'll love all the women in the tiny fictional town of Knapley. Kudos to the magnificent Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, who play Chris and Annie (the characters on whom the film was based).
Buy it, rent it, enjoy it!
Highly recommended for sheer entertainment value.
Excellent Movie September 8, 2008
Lisa Hutson
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!
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Product Specifications
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: DISD32412D
UPC: 786936227932
EAN: 0786936227932
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Release Date: May 4, 2004
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