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Calendar Girls (2003)  link to Calendar Girls on IMDb  link to trailer on IMDb

Number: 3276

poster Calendar Girls

IMDb Rating:
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6.9/10 (21933 votes)

Country: UK, 108 minutes

Spoken Languages: English

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Director(s): Nigel Cole

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
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 ...

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Cast:

photo Helen Mirren Helen Mirren Chris
photo Julie Walters Julie Walters Annie
photo John Alderton John Alderton John
photo Linda Bassett Linda Bassett Cora
photo Annette Crosbie Annette Crosbie Jessie

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 2.35:1