Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls


Starring:Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Philip Glenister, CiarĂ¡n Hinds, Celia Imrie, Geraldine James, Penelope Wilton, George Costigan, Graham Crowden, John Fortune, Georgie Glen, Angela Curran, Rosalind March, John-Paul Macleod, Marc Pickering, John Sharian, Belinda Everett
Director: Nigel Cole
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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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
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.
Calendar Girls
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Top cast
  • Calendar Girls
  • A Touch of Class
  • naughty but nice
  • Excellent example of brit humor
 Calendar Girls
Starring: Helen Mirren , Julie Walters , John Alderton , Linda Bassett , and Annette Crosbie
Director: Nigel Cole
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0001I55M4
Release Date: 2004-05-04

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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

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.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Top cast.......2007-05-25

Great movie. Helen Mirren, Julie Walters and more of Britain's top cast.
How a nude calender can be sofisticated.

5 out of 5 stars Calendar Girls.......2007-03-29

Love movies that don't have young, hot looking women. It's a pleasure to see movies about every day women in their lives.

5 out of 5 stars A Touch of Class.......2007-02-04

In Rylstone, a small village in North Yorkshire, John Baker, beloved husband of Angela Baker, dies of leukemia. Angela belongs to the Women's Institute, an organization not unlike the many women's garden clubs that are all over these United States (Visiting lecturers expound on the joys of broccoli). Ms. Baker, along with the other middle-aged women in her group, comes up with the bold new idea of printing a calendar of "nude, not naked" women to raise money for the local hospital in John's honor. After all he did say that the last stage of a woman's life is her most glorious-- sort of the last rose of summer motif-- because she will soon turn to seed. These good women became an overnight sensation as it was a photo shot heard around the world. Their story was the basis for the tasteful film "Calendar Girls," starring Helen Mirren as Chris Harper, "Miss January" and the driving force behind the concept in the first place, and Julie Walters as Annie Clark, and directed by Nigel Cole. The Brits do this sort of understated classy film so well. We need look no further than the recent "Mrs. Henderson Presents" and "The Queen" for evidence. The acting here is flawless, the photography is excellent and all the props the nude ladies use to make themselves less naked are appropriately placed.

Included on the DVD are interviews with both the director and the original twelve calendar ladies, neither of which should be missed.

4 out of 5 stars naughty but nice.......2007-01-25

When Annie Clark's husband dies of leukemia, her best friend Chris Harper happens upon an idea to honor his memory after finding a pornography magazine belonging to her son. A group of women friends in their fifties from Yorkshire's normally staid Women's Institute pose in the nude ("not naked!" we are reminded in the film) to produce and market a pin-up calendar, the proceeds of which would benefit the hospital where John was treated and died. Starting with an initial print run of 500 calendars, the women meet international acclaim, including an appearance on the Jay Leno Show, and raise $1 million for the hospital. There is nothing erotic or even sensual in this lighthearted British comedy (rated PG-13). All the women's poses are strategically obscured by potted plants and the like. Instead, in addition to the mischief-making comedy, there are surprisingly powerful sub-themes of body image, aging, grief and loss, community, and memory. The film is based upon a true story from 1999. I was prepared to dismiss this film but instead enjoyed it for the lighthearted fun that it is.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent example of brit humor.......2007-01-12

Helen Mirren and Julie Walters are fantastic. A typical example of british life style. It's got everything, it makes you laugh, it makes you weep, it makes you think. Absolutely fabulous! What a great "Sunday Afternoon' movie!
Calendar Girls [Region 2]
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Top cast
  • Calendar Girls
  • A Touch of Class
  • naughty but nice
  • Excellent example of brit humor
 Calendar Girls [Region 2]
Starring: Helen Mirren , Julie Walters , John Alderton , Linda Bassett , and Annette Crosbie
Director: Nigel Cole
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0000X7KBE

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:

5 out of 5 stars Top cast.......2007-05-25

Great movie. Helen Mirren, Julie Walters and more of Britain's top cast.
How a nude calender can be sofisticated.

5 out of 5 stars Calendar Girls.......2007-03-29

Love movies that don't have young, hot looking women. It's a pleasure to see movies about every day women in their lives.

5 out of 5 stars A Touch of Class.......2007-02-04

In Rylstone, a small village in North Yorkshire, John Baker, beloved husband of Angela Baker, dies of leukemia. Angela belongs to the Women's Institute, an organization not unlike the many women's garden clubs that are all over these United States (Visiting lecturers expound on the joys of broccoli). Ms. Baker, along with the other middle-aged women in her group, comes up with the bold new idea of printing a calendar of "nude, not naked" women to raise money for the local hospital in John's honor. After all he did say that the last stage of a woman's life is her most glorious-- sort of the last rose of summer motif-- because she will soon turn to seed. These good women became an overnight sensation as it was a photo shot heard around the world. Their story was the basis for the tasteful film "Calendar Girls," starring Helen Mirren as Chris Harper, "Miss January" and the driving force behind the concept in the first place, and Julie Walters as Annie Clark, and directed by Nigel Cole. The Brits do this sort of understated classy film so well. We need look no further than the recent "Mrs. Henderson Presents" and "The Queen" for evidence. The acting here is flawless, the photography is excellent and all the props the nude ladies use to make themselves less naked are appropriately placed.

Included on the DVD are interviews with both the director and the original twelve calendar ladies, neither of which should be missed.

4 out of 5 stars naughty but nice.......2007-01-25

When Annie Clark's husband dies of leukemia, her best friend Chris Harper happens upon an idea to honor his memory after finding a pornography magazine belonging to her son. A group of women friends in their fifties from Yorkshire's normally staid Women's Institute pose in the nude ("not naked!" we are reminded in the film) to produce and market a pin-up calendar, the proceeds of which would benefit the hospital where John was treated and died. Starting with an initial print run of 500 calendars, the women meet international acclaim, including an appearance on the Jay Leno Show, and raise $1 million for the hospital. There is nothing erotic or even sensual in this lighthearted British comedy (rated PG-13). All the women's poses are strategically obscured by potted plants and the like. Instead, in addition to the mischief-making comedy, there are surprisingly powerful sub-themes of body image, aging, grief and loss, community, and memory. The film is based upon a true story from 1999. I was prepared to dismiss this film but instead enjoyed it for the lighthearted fun that it is.

5 out of 5 stars Excellent example of brit humor.......2007-01-12

Helen Mirren and Julie Walters are fantastic. A typical example of british life style. It's got everything, it makes you laugh, it makes you weep, it makes you think. Absolutely fabulous! What a great "Sunday Afternoon' movie!
Millennium Calendar Girls
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • The best Page three Girls!
 Millennium Calendar Girls
Starring: Jordan , Lisa Montgomery , Lana Cox , Joanne Guest , and Kirsten Imrie
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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ASIN: B000056PMY
Release Date: 2001-02-06

Description

Celebrate 12 new ways to enjoy each and every day of the year with this celebration of Britain's hottest women! Featuring Joanne Guest, Kirsten Imrie, Adele Stevens, Charmaine Sinclair, Teresa May, Jordan, Lisa Montgomery, Sammi Jessop, Lana Cox, Mischa, Linzi Dawn McKenzie and Vicki Lee.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars The best Page three Girls!.......2000-12-29

This seems to be the same disc that was released in Europe as Playboy Millennium Calendar Girls and featured 12 Page three stunners. Two thirds are well known and very attractive, all are natural with Linsey Dawn Mackenzie, Charmaine Sinclair Jo Guest and others looking very beautiful. One or two are a bit borderline and the Jordan (Katie Price) clip was a bit dull compared to some of the others. Each girl has about 5 minutes with some of the clips appearing on some model's individual discs (Jordan's disc is being released at the same time as this). I hope they go on releasing these in America with Kirsten Imrie, Jo Guest and the others. They're more like the more modern Playboy discs with a more lingering camera and has been shot on high quality video. There's none of the arty stuff that affects half of Playboy's US output

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