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	Calendar Girls True Story - Movie Calendar Girls Real Pictures
		Unfortunately, this was not the case, yet the image of the sunflower remained as a reminder of John and a symbol of the group's fund raising for leukaemia and lymphomas.
		In her BBC review of the film, real life calendar girl Tricia Stewart explained that the argument that arose between Annie and Chris in the film did not happen between any of the girls in real life.
		Browse the two calendars, including the original WI Calendar and the new calendar featuring the women from the film with some of the original calendar girls.
	www.chasingthefrog.com /reelfaces/calendargirls.php (1111 words)

	Filmtracks: Calendar Girls (Patrick Doyle)
		Calendar Girls: (Patrick Doyle) Imagine how the calendar and the film would have been different had it not been for all of those tastefully placed flower arrangements!
		The Nigel Cole film, Calendar Girls, based on the real life story of Women's Institute gang of gals over 40 posing nude for a calendar to raise money for a local hospital, is a feel-good story produced by Touchstone/Buena Vista (yup, the Disney folks), so you know it'll be innocuous.
		The piano, performed by Brian Gascoigne, is at center stage in the score, propelling the rest of the ensemble with its rumbling, low rhythms and contemporary style.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/calendar_girls.html (731 words)

	Calendar Girls
		Calendar Girls is inspired by the true story of a group of women in Yorkshire, who decided to pose naked for their local Women's Institute calendar to raise money for leukemia research.
		Calendar Girls focuses primarily on Chris (Mirren, Last Orders, Gosford Park) and Annie (Julie Walters, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Before You Go), two longtime friends and the main people behind the idea for the calendar.
		Annie got the idea for the calendar after hearing John compare the women of Yorkshire to the flowers of Yorkshire; both are most beautiful during their last stages.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/calendar_girls.html (603 words)

	Modamag.com \|Calendar Girls (DVD Review)
		“Calendar Girls” was described to me as a female version of “The Full Monty” and while I don’t believe that describes it appropriately, I do believe it to be equally an equally empowering film.
		The calendars never sell well, but they might if they can get enough women together and pose nude (not naked, but because “nude” is artistic).
		“Calendar Girls” delivers on all levels, but let me just say that Helen Mirren and Julie Walters are two of the finest actresses I’ve had the pleasure of watching.
	www.modamag.com /calendargirls_dvd.htm (598 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Calendar Girls at Epinions.com
		While calendars featuring ladies disrobed is not all that unique one must take into account that these women are well past their prime.
		Calendar Girls was based on a true story and did in fact evolve in an actual calendar.
		Even better was the extras on the DVD which included interviews with the real calendar girls and their insights on how this has changed their lives.
	www.epinions.com /content_160320163460 (1042 words)

	USAID Guinea / Education & Training: Role Model Calendar Features Dynamic Guinean Women (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		At that time, it was frowned upon for a girl to "grow up," i.e., enter puberty, while in school because, in her parents' eyes, this could drive the girl to immoral behavior or, even worse, early pregnancy in a "mixed" school setting.
		Recognized as a driving force to get young girls to go to school, and to stay in school, Binta was selected to be one of the twelve women whose photos and life stories are featured on a USAID-sponsored girls' role model calendar for 2002.
		The women featured on the calendar are are, like Binta, extraordinary women who overcame obstacles to achieve their personal and professional dreams, or who, despite their lack of education, continue to promote the importance of sending girls to school.
	www.usaid.gov /gn/education/news/020115_calendar/index.htm (993 words)

	Calendar Girls Movie Review
		Calendar Girls is based on the true story of a very dignified woman's club, where 12 members of the Woman's Institute posed nude in order to raise money for a charitable cause.
		Calendar Girls is a pleasing and uplifting movie, for the warm and humorous performances, but above all, for the caring message it delivered.
		Calendar Girls shows what can happen when people get together to make something good out of something so sad, as a loved one passing away from a horrible disease.
	thecelebritycafe.com /movies/full_review/396.html (455 words)

	CALENDAR GIRLS/ **
		"Calendar Girls" has the right kind of story for a movie that could get a passing grade -- it's about a bunch of ladies from the Rylstone Women's Institute, who in 1999 posed for a nude calendar to raise money for the local hospital after one of their husbands died from leukaemia.
		Look at the scene where the girls are about to go off to America, where publicity about the calendar has spread.
		"Calendar Girls" places itself in a tradition of films that are fairly easy to make, looks like it's doing a professional job and still ends up failing.
	www.ukcritic.com /calendargirls.html (726 words)

	Calendar Girls (2003)
		Sentimental but never mawkish, this ensemble comedy is an unpretentious charmer distinguished by the presence of the extraordinary Mirren, playing the uninhibited and wisecracking antithesis of her workaholic Prime Suspect heroine.
		Calendar Girls, which is inspired by a true story that made headlines in 2000, takes place largely in the sleepy little town of Rylstone, in England's gorgeous Yorkshire region.
		Specifically, the negative impact Chris's fifteen minutes of fame has on both her husband (Ciaran Hinds) and her teenaged son is raised and then promptly abandoned.
	www.reel.com /movie.asp?MID=114336&PID=10113554&Tab=reviews&CID=18 (589 words)

	Calendar Girls (2003): Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett - PopMatters Film Review
		The adolescent's humiliation starts with her borrowing of the girlie calendar from the local garage, and accelerates rapidly when he and a friend inadvertently wander into the kitchen when she is demonstrating how to transform nakedness into artistic nudity to an avid coterie of fans.
		Repeatedly in the film, Chris, Annie and their calendar collaborators claim that they're proving that the Women's Institute is not all "jam" (which represents the WI's reputation for domestic perfection and limited intellectual horizons) and "Jerusalem" (the 19th century hymn which represents the sturdily English religious morality of the WI).
		While the calendar girls' real life triumphs prove that Blake's radical spirit is burning still in "England's green and pleasant land," the film is driven by a mercenary conviction that only the anodyne sells.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/calendar-girls.shtml (1028 words)

	KidScore Movie Reviews Calendar Girls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		When Annie Clarke’s (Julie Walters) husband is stricken with leukemia, she and ten other members of the WI suggest a fundraiser to buy a new couch for the family waiting room at the hospital.
		Meanwhile, their families are trying to live with the women’s escapades and fame, for they have become famous overnight, while collecting over one million dollars for their calendar.
		Linda has raised two children, a boy and a girl, and knows what they like in movies and what is appropriate.
	www.mediafamily.org /kidscore/movies_calendar_girls.shtml (481 words)

	Calendar Girls Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Expectations have been high for Calendar Girls, touted as the female version of The Full Monty, but based on a true story.
		When Annie's husband John (renowned stage actor John Alderton) dies from leukemia, the women decide to raise money to buy a new couch for the "relatives room" in the hospital where he was treated.
		In this season when numerous surgically altered young bodies flood the screens nationwide, Calendar Girls is a pleasant reminder that real women do, in fact, exist—complete with hard-earned wrinkles and breasts low from feeding babies—even if only in British films.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=114336 (1435 words)

	Amazon.ca: Calendar Girls: DVD: Nigel Cole,Linda Bassett,George Costigan,Annette Crosbie,Graham Crowden,John ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		One of the most delightful films of recent years, "Calendar Girls," a distaff version of "The Full Monty," is the true story of a group of middle-aged English women who became international celebrities when they designed and posed for a nude fundraising calendar that sold millions of copies worldwide.
		Each of the "girls" is given her own unique personality so that we see them not just as a group, united in this inspiring endeavor, but as individuals working through their own personal demons on the rode to the project's completion.
		I can happily recommend Calendar Girls to just about anybody over the age of 10, but especially to women who would dearly love to see what happens when the world is shocked just a little and forced to change its view of women that are typically taken for granted.
	www.amazon.ca /Calendar-Girls-Nigel-Cole/dp/B0001I55M4 (1667 words)

	The FilmFactory: Calendar Girls
		"Calendar Girls" is based on the true story of a group of women who bare all - or nearly all - for charity and become international celebrities as a result.
		So when a group of extraordinary women are looking for a new way to raise money, they decide to take the annual WI calendar, normally featuring landscapes or flowers, and create something traditional - but with a twist.
		"Calendar Girls" is a comedy of outsize proportions.
	www.bvimovies.com /dvd/calendargirls.html (138 words)

	european-films.net - review: Calendar Girls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Calendar Girls is a film that perfectly fits the mould of the British feel-good comedy of which at least one has come out each year in the last couple of years.
		Calendar Girls also features a lady in her fifties in the spotlight with a husband who dies early on, which is again the motor for all the actions that follow, though this time around Cole's new film has more in common with The Full Monty, since it deals with British working-class nudity-for-pay.
		After his death, Chris comes up with the idea to use the annual calendar of the local branch of the Women Institute (WI) as a fund-raiser for a new couch, in memory of John, to be put in the visitor’s room of the hospital.
	european-films.net /content/view/326/59 (674 words)

	"Calendar Girls" DVD Review by Kevin Carr - 7M Pictures
		Since it is time to plan for the annual W.I. calendar, Chris pitches the idea of doing an artful nude calendar featuring the women of the W.I. When they manage to strip for the cameras and sell the calendar, they find sudden fame.
		But the really neat thing about “Calendar Girls” is that you find yourself wanting to see the pictures of the women - not for arousal or even for curiosity, but to support the real women behind it.
		The original calendar girls are planning a new venture in 2004, which could bring them to their goal of raising £1 million.
	www.7mpictures.com /inside/reviews/calendargirlsdvd_review.htm (773 words)

	CNN.com - Review: 'Calendar Girls' fun but timid - Dec. 19, 2003
		Chris is inspired by the X-rated skin magazine she finds under her son's bed and the seminude calendar she spies hanging in a mechanic shop.
		But those feature supple young girls, and Chris seems to be feeling a bit insecure about her own age.
		His words inspire her to show others that there is still beauty, mystique and majesty in the body of an older woman, and she sets out to organize her own nude calendar.
	www.cnn.com /2003/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/19/review.girls.ap (499 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Calendar Girls" movie review (2003) "Calendar Girls" review, Nigel Cole, Helen Mirren, Julie Walters
		Once the calendar is released, the picture runs out of steam and tries to keep afloat for a long third act by inventing false drama.
		The catalyst for the calendar is the desire to buy a comfortable new couch for the waiting room of a hospital where many of the women spent long hours while one of their husbands was dying of cancer.
		There's a good time to be had watching "Calendar Girls," but the longer is goes on, the more obvious it becomes that the real-life story of these women has been ham-handedly tweaked for mass consumption with formulaic fictional plot points that drag terribly on the movie's clever humor.
	splicedwire.com /03reviews/calendargirls.html (435 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| Real calendar girls stay grounded
		They are proud to say they are still regular attendees of WI meetings, with Beryl Bamforth, the oldest of the "real calendar girls", proud of the fact that she will be back there just days after treading the carpet of the UK première of the film.
		Ms Baker said her husband knew about the plan for the calendar, and was even going to be the "token man" in it, but was too ill to take part.
		Calendar Girls is showing in London now, and goes nationwide from the 12 September.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3078472.stm (759 words)

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	BBC - Films - Review - Calendar Girls
		For once, though, "Calendar Girls" - inspired by the true story of the Yorkshire housewives who posed nude for an alternative Women's Institute calendar - lives up to that description.
		For the most part, though, "Calendar Girls" is a delight, full of great one-liners, quirky character-based comedy, and two excellent lead performances from Mirren and Walters.
		"Calendar Girls" is out now in London and released nationwide on the 12th September 2003.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/08/06/calendar_girls_2003_review.shtml (285 words)

	TechnoFile Reviews Calendar Girls on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Calendar Girls truly takes you on an emotional journey in which at one point you’re laughing out loud, and a few minutes later your eyes are welling up with tears, then shortly after that you're laughing again.
		And of course they’re successful: their calendar sparks interest on both sides of the Atlantic (at least) and ends up raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for leukemia, as well as buying the sofa for the local hospital that was their initial modest goal.
		Calendar Girls is a funny and moving story, and it deals with such big issues such as friendship, loss, the perils of fame, and the consequences of one’s actions.
	www.technofile.com /dvds/calendar_girls.html (620 words)

	The Flick Filosopher \| Calendar Girls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Here's the thing: Calendar Girls will invariably be compared to The Full Monty.
		I mean, you'd think, with the way that men (some men, anyways) go on about their dangly bits, that they'd be only too happy to drop trou up on the big screen with only the slightest provocation.
		Calendar Girls takes back the derogatory moniker that gets slapped on films about phony women and wears it like a badge of female honor.
	www.flickfilosopher.com /flickfilos/archive/2003/calendargirls.shtml (710 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Calendar Girls"
		"Calendar Girls" is based on a true story about a Yorkshire women's group who some years ago decided to jazz up their fundraising calendar by posing for it in the semi-nude, their private parts discreetly hidden behind strategically placed flora or baked goods.
		The calendar, aside from making lots of money for the group, also suggested that sexual attractiveness has less to do with age than it does with playfulness and confidence.
		Yet "Calendar Girls," directed by Nigel Cole ("Saving Grace"), is filled with lots of extras it doesn't need, when the bare-naked bones of the story would have been plenty.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2003/12/19/calendar_girls/index.html (433 words)

	DVD REVIEW: "CALENDAR GIRLS" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		While Penelope Wilton gets some decent material regarding her interaction with her boorish husband, the rest of the calendar girls are barely personified.
		While it will likely be long forgotten long before we need a new calendar of middle-aged, English woman au naturel, the moderately entertaining "Calendar Girls" is good enough to warrant a passing grade.
		Calendar Girls is now available for purchase by clicking here.
	www.screenit.com /dvd/2003/calendar_girls.html (725 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Calendar Girls
		Calendar Girls purports to empower women over 50, but director Nigel Cole only pays minor lip service to the film's supposed empowerment ritual.
		Besides being afflicted with a serious case of the cutes, Calendar Girls is neither funny nor randy.
		Cole diligently maps out the particulars of the girls' public relations coup (they're superstars at home and treated like porn stars in Hollywood), but is unwilling to seriously deal with the romantic and physical frustrations that entangle the film's older men and women.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=888 (404 words)

	Calendar Girls get dressed for Breakthrough Breast Cancer by Lulu.com (Calendar) in Photography
		Thirteen of Britain’s leading topless and “glamour” models have shed their inhibitions and posed in many layers of heavy clothing for a charity calendar in aid of breast cancer research.
		The result is a large-format calendar on high-quality paper – and an affectionate tribute to the many recent calendars in which unglamorous amateurs have stripped off for worthy causes.
		It is NOT endorsed by the makers of the 2003 film “Calendar Girls” or previous films of the same name or those portrayed in them.
	www.lulu.com /content/550950 (279 words)

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