Calendar Girls
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Movie Reviews of Calendar Girls
Movie Review: Poignant, funny, and touching
Summary: 5 Stars
When Annie's husband dies of leukemia, her friends, led by her best friend Chris, rally around her and decide to raise money to fight leukemia by producing a nude calendar with them and their friends as models. To say that they are a bit older than most pin-up girls is to understate the case, and they approach the actual day of the "shoot" with fear and trepidation. However, they soon overcome their reluctance and the result is a fantastic success which they never dreamed could happen. They are beseiged with newspaper reporters and camera men and they even end up going to Hollywood to appear on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Their sudden success is not without its downside, however, as marriages are effected and children are thoroughly embarrassed by their mother's "exposure". This movie is a delight and the subject matter is handled tastefully and always with wit and good humor. The women are all members of the WI, Women's Institute which was a stuffy organization before they lightened it up. This film is highly recommended!Movie Review: A lovely telling of a true story.
Summary: 5 Stars
The story of the WI in a sleepy Yorkshire village trying to raise money for their local hospital's oncology unit, intially to buy a sofa for the visitor's room, following the death by cancer of one their flock's husband. Walters, the bereaved woman, is exquiste in her expression of deep seated pain and she is uncharacteristicly not playing the funny lady. Mirren has the joker role here and does it very well. It's a heart warming and funny film and the woman's good intentions pay huge dividends when the idea to make a nude calender is hit upon. They raise hundreds of thousands of pounds, eventually millions!
Like all good innocent things the venture is almost destroyed by the intrusion of a greedy and muck raking press.
There are tender and beautiful performances on mass here, particularly the woman's roles played by some of the UK's most outstanding actresses.
A must see and a great gift for your Mum! I can also tell you as a native of Yorkshire that the village at the centre of the story really is that pretty!
Movie Review: Shows a woman's true beauty, add another 5 stars
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't think "Calender Girls" got ever got the credit it deserved. The movie had all the important elements to make it a hit. It was funny, sad, daring, creative, unique, a true story and it had partial nudity. What was missing was special effects, improbable story lines, obnoxious characters and expensive sets, all things I do well without. Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect 1-6, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, Gosford Park, Raising Helen) and Julie Walters (Harry Potter, Educating Rita) were fantastic and exuded beauty that transcends beyond age. This is an uplifting movie that I first rented but then bought to keep in my collection. It's not just for baby boomers and above, both my kids, ages 15 and 10 enjoyed it too. My ten year old, a boy, roars with belly laughter at the movie's most famous line
"I think we're going to need significantly bigger buns."
This is a must-see for anyone who has ever truly loved a woman. "Calendar Girls" makes a great Mother's Day gift too!
Movie Review: Beyond Talent
Summary: 5 Stars
Helen Mirren (Gosford Park, Mosquito Coast) is arguably the British equivalent to Meryl Streep. Based on a true story, this film never panders to the sappy or maudlin clichés that could have destroyed it. Instead, Director Nigel Cole (Saving Grace) creates an atmosphere of true friends bonding during a sad moment and turns it into a lovely, funny story that keeps growing, seeming like it might to spin out of control. These women, all considered well past their prime, pose `nude' for a money raising calendar for the local hospital. It is done with the kind of taste and humor only the British can pull off. It is at times, touching and hilarious. In a time when older actresses can't seem to find work, this group of talented heavyweights show the experience and talent they have used for years. This is a wonderful story.Movie Review: Slainte to this film and the women it represents!
Summary: 5 Stars
Although this film is based on the true story of 11 brave 50-ish women taking on an outlandish project, I'm sure there was some "poetic license" taken with scripting, etc. The real stars were not, I don't think, in the film...however...hats off to the women who took this courageous step. It was an awe-inspiring story that warmed the heart, showing the depths that friendship can reach. A welcome addition to my video library, I'm sure that I will view this film over and over again. Kudos to the ladies who had backbone enough to have their pics taken (as a 50's something woman, I don't think I would!)nude, kudos to the ladies who protrayed them in the film and kudos for all who brought us this story...we need more of this type of film flowing out of movie studios worldwide!