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Calendar Girls is a sweet and uplifting British comedy based on a factual account. Plot in the picturesque village of Napely, we meet 50-something best friends Chris (Helen Miren) and Annie (Julie Walters) . They belong to the local Women’s Institute, which is staid and venerable, and to them, stupid and comical. (Their annual fund-raising event is selling a calendar with photos of jams and flowers.) When Annie’s beloved husband dies from cancer, some of the club members settle to raise money for a original sofa in the hospital waiting room by selling a calendar featuring themselves in the (gasp!) nude.
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Helen Miren is large as the feisty and opinionated Chris, whose involvement alienates her family. Julie Walters is very likeable and sympathetic as the novel widow. Ciaran Hinds, who has starred in many period films, has a dinky but great role as Chris’ husband.
Most of the movie is beautifully photographed in rural England and it is simply idyllic. This is in consuming dissimilarity to the unsavory scenes filmed in Hollywood (when the ladies appear on The Tonight Present.) The yarn is heartwarming, but avoids being syrupy. The nude scenes are tastefully done, and played for laughs, as one would inquire of. The right calendar, by the device, has so far raised $1.6M for a fresh cancer hospital sail (and the current sofa) . I heartily recommend this refreshing and well-made comedy.
The film is based on the legal account of the women of the Rylstone Women’s Institute in North Yorkshire, England. Tired of having the same unimaginative speakers (who delve into the enthralling world of rag rugs, or the different species of broccoli), member Annie (Julie Walters, “Billy Elliot”) asks her husband John, an avid horticulturist, to command at the institute. John, however, is battling luekemia, and before he can do his speech, he passes away. Annie and longtime pal Chris (Helen Mirren of “Gosford Park”) decided to raise money to replace the hideously sorrowful sofa in the relatives room of the hospital flee John was treated at. But another WI calendar featuring jams, flowers, or the countryside? That barely raised 75 pounds the previous year!
Something in John’s WI speech motivates Chris; “The flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire”, he wrote. “In each phase of their lives, they become more magnificent”. This impowers Chris and Annie to recruit 10 more WI members to strip down to the buff and pose for a professional photographer. The pictures turn out vast, but the girls face difficulty when their local WI branch president wants to set aside a finish to what she feels is a defective understanding. Chris and Annie have to fight the head WI counsel, and each other, as their popularity grows. They go from Yorkshire, to the Jay Leno exhibit in L.A. (where they lounge by their hotel pool with Anthrax!), and benefit again. But the broad success of the calendar begins to distract Chris from her family responsibilities, and threatens to attach up a hedge between her and Annie. Helen Mirren gives a improbable performance, and is well deserving of the Golden Globe she has been nominated for. A film not to be missed. For those who remark about having to witness women over 50 in the nude, you’ve missed the point. Personally, I consider these women gawk comely darn huge for their age!
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