Calendar Girls Movie Review 2003

The local members of the Women's Institute club in Yorkshire decide to pose nude for a calendar in order to raise money for leukemia research. The calendar, surprisingly, is a hit, even though the models are a little older than your usual calendar pinup girls. Enjoyable for the right audience (read: fans of veddy understated British humor that is secondary to the drama), but starts losing cohesiveness near the end. Loosely based on a true story.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 108 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

True Stories, Female Bonding, Great Britain, Hospitals & Medicine, Widows & Widowers

Screenplay

Juliette Towhidi, Tim Firth

Cast

Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Philip Glenister, Ciaran Hinds, Celia Imrie, Geraldine James, Penelope Wilton, George Costigan, Graham Crowden, John Fortune

Cinematography

Ashley Rowe

Director

Nigel Cole

Music

Patrick Doyle

Other

Jay Leno, Tim Fraser, Liz Gallacher, Michael Parker, Mark Raggett, Frances Tempest, Martin Childs

Producer

Nick Barton, Suzanne Mackie, Harbour Pictures, Touchstone Pictures