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Based on a true story. There is a Women's Institute in Yorkshire England, a tiny little town. The Institute decides to raise money for new furniture for a local hospital. They decide the only way to raise money is do a nude calendar with members. The problem is all the members are 50+! The calendar is done and is a roaring success. The film focuses on some of the women and how the calendar affects their families and personal lives.

Whimsical is the best way to describe this. It's one of those British comedies that has few laughs, but is very lighthearted and has some serious drama in it. I can't say I loved the movie--the script, while well-written, is scattershot and the light, low-key tone was TOO low-key for me. And some story lines are brought up (one of the women has a cheating husband) and are never resolved. Still, there were some good laughs in it and there is some just beautiful views of (I'm assuming) Yorkshire. Especially incredible is a view of the entire town from on top of a huge rock overlooking the area.

Also we have some wonderful British actresses playing in the lead roles. The two best were Helen Mirren (who's just great--again) and Julie Walters (who looks absolutely stunning). Also this is one of the few films that celebrates the sexuality of women who are 50+. How many movies do you you see like that nowadays? Of course this is a British film--Hollywood would NEVER tell a story like this. Also the film does have some fairly explicit glimpses of female nudity--but they're not sexual in context and ARE needed for the integrity of the story.

I'm giving this a 7.

Based on a true story, eleven members of a women's institute group decide to pose nude for a rather untraditional annual calendar to raise money for charity.

With an all star cast lead by Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, we go on a journey through the ridicule and resistance that the ladies had to endure to achieve this amazing feat, which ultimately raised millions.

Calendar Girls is brilliantly performed and directed, and it has many heart wrenching tales that lie beneath the main story, each pertaining to the girls own reasons and drives to fight for what eventually became a mammoth success.

Heart Warming, Funny, Charming and Entertaining, undoubtedly a winner on every level.

8/10

Greetings again from the darkness. Director Nigel Cole delivers a charming, touching, funny story with a message. Based on the true story of a few society women in England who decide to do a quasi-nude calendar to raise money for a cancer center. The well-known story itself holds few surprises, but the cast is so wonderful and the dialogue so crisp that one can't help but enjoy the film. Helen Mirren ("Gosford Park") and Julie Walters ("Educating Rita") lead the mostly female cast who bare it all ... sort of. As much as I liked the film, I do believe the two leads should have flipped roles to make this even more effective. Also, the pacing is true British, as many of the lines are missed due to U.S. audience out-loud laughter. Be forewarned if you see it in a full theatre ... you will miss a few lines. A wonderful movie for all ages and both sexes!

Did you know what makes the difference between "Art and Pornography"? Well it´s the artist. This was one of the stroking scenes of the film "Calendar Girls". This film is profundly moving and even more because it is based on a true story. The women of the W.I club somewhere in Yorkshire are famous for plum jam and speeches on different household or gardening items which are mostly quite tedious. The situation changes by the time the husband of Annie (Julie Walters)suffers from leukemia and can´t get through. Annie´s best friend Chris (Helen Mirren)comes up with the idea of a nude calendar with the women of the W.I. club to raise money for a settee at the leukemia ward at the local hospital. At first everybody is quite suspicious but the calendar turns out as a tremendous success which brings the girls even to Hollywood.

I have rarely ever seen such a heart-warming and inspiring film. This movie makes you laugh and cry almost at the same time. (My favourite scene was the one with the oregano-joint ;-).) As most British comedies the actors were fabulous and the jokes did not seem constructed like they do in most Hollywood productions.

This film is a hymn for all middle aged women. It shows the world that 40+ women can look great even when they are nude. "The women of Yorkshire are like the flowers of Yorkshire in the last state of their lives they look best."

This film is highly recommendable for everybody even if you just want to see the beautiful landscape of Yorkshire.

In the small town of Knapely, Yorkshire, England, Annie Clarke (Julie Walters) has just lost her husband, who was ill with leukemia. Inspired in his speech to the local Women's Institute, where he said that "the flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire", and "the last phase of the women of Yorkshire is always the most glorious", her best friend Chris Harper (Helen Mirren) decides to make a calendar with twelve local middle-age women nude to raise funds for the wing of leukemia treatment in the local hospital. The calendar becomes well succeeded, making them famous and affecting their lives.

"Calendar Girls" is a good dramatic comedy, with an interesting screenplay and great performances of Julie Walters and Helen Mirren. It becomes funnier because of the behavior clichés of the British husbands. I found hilarious the scene of the breakfast, when the husband tells his wife that she is nude in the newspaper, and then he asks for the bacon. This movie is a good entertainment. My vote is six.

Title (Brazil): "Garotas do Calendário" ("Calendar Girls")

If you said to me that I'd enjoy a heart-warming tale about a group of stripping housewives from Yorkshire then I'd probably direct you to my current DVD collection, which includes such "heart-warming" films like "Desperado", "Predator" and "Die Hard". To put it bluntly, stuff like that normally turns me right off. So imagine my surprise to find myself genuinely enjoying this film which has a winning formula of gentle humour, a strong ensemble cast and, although I hate to say it, a heart-warming ending. And yes, it's another British film with people taking their clothes off. "The Full Monty" has a lot to answer for!

"Calendar Girls" is set in a branch of the Women's Institute in northern England where best friends Anne (Julie Walters) and Chris (Helen Mirren) tire of the relentless tirade of boring speeches and endlessly singing "Jerusalem". After her husband dies of leukaemia, Anne resolves to raise some money with Chris by producing an unusual version of the W.I. calendar. Having gathered enough support, they shoot a nude calendar and despite the reluctance of the W.I. leadership, the calendar's roaring success quickly brings fame and fortune to the women. But success isn't all it's cracked up to be, testing the relationships of the women with their families as well as each other.

I already felt that "Calendar Girls" was the sort of film that would fit in perfectly in the TV schedules on a quiet Sunday night when nothing else was on but I'm pleased to say that I greatly underestimated this film. True, it is a gentle film that rarely threatens to be controversial or the sort of thing that would upset your Granny. But the performances of the strong cast mean that the plot, based on a true story, never fails to captivate your attention. It's a perfect blend of tragedy and comedy and ultimately, that's the sort of thing that the film's audience is looking for.

On the flip side, I did feel it went on for too long and there were still aspects of the story that weren't fully explored such as the impact on Helen Mirren's son (John-Paul Macleod) or what happens to the women after the publicity died down. The ending also felt strangely rushed and was a bit of a letdown. Perhaps with better writing and pacing, this could have been an absolute classic but "Calendar Girls" is still a film very much worthy of your attention. It's not as saucy as "The Full Monty" but it is a simple, unassuming film with modest aspirations that manages to be a roaring success. It's a hidden gem of a film and perfect to give to your Granny for her birthday.

Calendar Girls (2003), directed by Nigel Cole, is a fairly predictable feel-good movie. Two close friends, Chris (Helen Mirren) and Annie (Julie Walters), decide to raise money for a couch in the waiting room of the local hospital. To do this, they and ten friends pose for a calendar, in which they are portrayed nude. (Well, they're nude, but neither we nor the calendar actually shows any nudity; the view of each women is blocked by strategically placed props.)

This is a pretty thin story line, and I think the director and writers struggled to add enough sub-plots to fill out the movie. The sub-plots are artificial and not really organic to the plot--just something to watch until the credits come on.

Despite all this, the film is probably worth watching. The Yorkshire scenery is glorious, and Helen Mirren can carry a movie just by being on the screen. Not a great film, but still enjoyable.

I've been getting a little tired of the computer-enhanced extravaganzas that have been flung at viewers over the past few years. You know what I'm talking about--the movies that are short on plot, acting or both which are bolstered up by loud FX and revolutionary digital animation so that it becomes "special effects in search of a picture". I'm delighted to say that CALENDAR GIRLS has nothing of the kind. It's all about the plot, all about the women involved, and all about laughing so hard you cry--or maybe about being able to forget tears in deep laughter, if only for a moment.

The acting is superb. One hardly needs to mention Helen Mirren. I read one comment that pans her Yorkshire accent; well, I attended it with an Englishwoman who is very familiar with such an accent and she specifically told me that her accent never slipped, so I've no idea where that comment came from.

Having been involved with the world of cancer treatment recently (fortunately with a happier outcome for my mother, a survivor of breast cancer) this movie strikes close to home. It's completely accurate; it's not pretty and it's often degrading, no matter how much the oncological staff tries to make it easier. The movie is also accurate in the kind of sentiments it expresses about cancer. People who have been touched by that filthy disease will do ANYTHING to fight it. (I sat on a spin bike for twenty-four consecutive hours in aid of breast cancer less than two weeks ago, so I do know what I'm talking about.) Yes, a few liberties with the real story have been taken. So what? The result is a coherent progression that is more interested in human beings than plot details. And isn't that what it should be about?

I've heard this dismissed as a movie for "older people". I'm proud to be of that number--after all, at the age of thirty-five I'm ten years out of the target demographic at which Hollywood films are aimed. If by "older people" they mean people who want a movie to be about something important as opposed to the latest spectacular light show, I'm glad to be of that number. I'd recommend this to anyone who's interested in a movie that is both hysterically funny and deeply touching. It has re-inspired me in the battle against cancer, and if it does that to anyone else, it will have made a worthwhile difference.

My wife heard from a friend that this movie must be nice and so it was. It tells how with an original idea a group of aged women achieved a surprisingly worldwide success for a good purpose. I have to admit that I didn't expect such a nice story. First, I thought that the film shows it like a documentary but in fact it's well developed as a comedy. Then I liked the little romantic village in Yorkshire. I was also surprised of how good the performance was of each calendar girl but I don't know for the moment if they are also the real ones. However, don't expect too much nudity from these superb girls. For all that reasons I give with my wife a 6.5/10 and it gets a place in best of DVD collection.

Women from rural England, members of the Women's Institute, released a saucy calendar of themselves in various stages of undress as a fund-raiser for medical causes. They had a good laugh doing it, and the calendar had its 15 minutes of fame, helping to boost the contribution to charity beyond a million quid.

A soundbite of a story, but hardly a film. No matter, as director Cole and screenwriters Juliette Towhidi and Tim Firth assuredly pad out the story with the usual conflicts and obstacles; the supportive husband undone by a mis-placed word, the campaigning middle-aged woman more interested in her own glory than the charitable cause, the pubescent teenager whose mum finds his scuddy mags, the shy photographer suddenly presented with shooting nudes... The triumphs, setbacks and redemptive arcs are all there. Depending on your mood, the film either pays off handsomely on its genre promise, or is clichéd and formulaic. As has become standard in this kind of material (again, depending on your mood, you can thank or blame Working Title), there is a UK-USA contrast, conjured up when the women visit a US chat show and experience the thrill of America, Crocodile Dundee style - big cars, big baths, big everything. The film wears its Britishness on its sleeve; the women enjoy a tai-chi session, but end on the line "Let's go and have chips." Husbands evacuate to the pub. Tabloid journalists are underhand snakes.

Walters and Mirren are a formidable pair, backed up by some seasoned pros such as John Alderton. The film is winsome, almost amusing at times. The tone is light, sentimental (in a good sense), melodramatic. It is based on a true story, and that makes a difference - in fact, the most fun I had was watching the DVD extras when the real Women's Institute ladies talk about their experiences.

Calendar Girls is a genre film, ticking off all the boxes. It is harsh to say that sometimes it seems like an extended Doc Martin episode, but not unwarranted. What some people call twee, others label delightful. Caledar Girls has found its audience, and in spades. Sometimes, I am one of them.

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. Julie Walters and Helen Mirren head a wonderful cast, with Walters as a woman whose husband dies of leukemia and Mirren as her best friend who comes up with the idea of the calendar as a way of both honoring his memory and raising money for the local hospital.

The risk for any `feel good' comedy is that it will become cloying, coy or cutesy. Luckily, `Calendar Girls' boasts an enormously witty screenplay and first-rate performances by its highly gifted cast. 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. The women face the expected roadblocks and snafus in the form of `shocked,' disapproving voices in the community, but their belief in the rightness of their cause brushes all such problems aside.

This charming film provides more genuine, out-and-out laughs than almost any comedy of recent times. `Calendar Girls' is heartwarming, touching and inspiring – and what more could one ask from a `feel-good' film than that?

Having seen this film three times (each time pretending to those who invited me that I hadn't seen it before!) I feel I know it pretty well, and although a great real life story, as a film it is pretty run-of-the-mill. It was certainly a break from the typical Hollywood blockbusters which are released each summer (at least the first time round), and it fits into that laid back style of comedy-drama which British screenwriters seem to have mastered pretty well. However, the script was nothing very original and the jokes were generally quite predictable, so that by the third viewing it was starting to feel like an episode of Last of the Summer Wine (a VERY long running British sitcom for anyone outside the UK). Julie Walters and Helen Mirren were both good in their respective roles, and the film could be both funny and moving at times, but was never anything more than fairly average light entertainment. Worth renting for a quiet night in with some friends, but it won't blow you away.

Rating out of 100: 60

Initially a blithe, lightly charming true story of two fifty-something girlfriends who spearhead their stuffy women's group in an English village into backing a nude calendar made up of the elderly club members (with proceeds going to charity, of course). The press and public take to the calendar immediately, but a few relatives of the models are embarrassed and alienated by the fuss, and the success may ultimately tear the two best friends apart. Harmless, entertaining trifle moves along swiftly (thanks to a brisk direction and an editor who hops from scene to scene with sharp precision), but there's not enough substance here to fill a 110-minute movie, and the third act in Hollywood feels like padding. Helen Mirren is such a natural on-screen that she bonds with the audience immediately (her wonderful figure doesn't hurt, either), but Julie Walters has the thudding role of the widow with angst, and her jealousy of Mirren in the final third--while perfectly natural--isn't given the screen-time to work itself out in a satisfying fashion (she just comes off as a spoil-sport). The movie is not an in-depth study of small town lives--it's a fictionalized, cozy throw-away with some heartwarming statistics at the end--which is why the hurt feelings and alienation don't sit right within this glossy scenario (they might not have been so intrusive had the Hollywood section of the story turned inward a bit--with less of Jay Leno). But despite the bumps in the road, it's a mostly giddy look at ordinary women empowering themselves just a little by taking everything off. **1/2 from ****

Much like one would expect out of a crisply produced, professionally acted British film, Calendar Girls delivers feel good without the big whoops and roaring laughter that accompanies its American counterparts. The acting is brilliant, with both Mirren and Walters balancing the inner conflicts of their characters marvelously. Praise should also be given to the rest of the cast, right down to the kids who play Jem(?) and his friend. Casting like this makes you wonder why other films seem to pick absolute blocks of wood for their side cast sometimes.

My nitpicks with this particular movie are mostly to do with the fact that the movie not only doesn't tie up some loose plot threads, it doesn't even look like it WANTS to. That, and the pacing of the movie never reaches anything higher than a slightly excited ho-hum, although that's hardly unique among British films.

Overall a good watch. It's refreshing to see sexuality portrayed without all the regular cliché ideas.

It is unfortunate that Calendar Girls isn't the sort of movie that gets nominated for Oscars because, in my opinion (for what that's worth) this movie would have won hands down!

It is good, clean fun without needing any of the profanity or gratuitous sex or violence that seems to define nominated films these days. Yet is ISN'T "sanitized" or ridiculously "cleaned up" for family viewing - and, what's more, it's based on a true story!

I laughed myself to tears at everyday little incidents that were just SO believable and, to be honest, anyone who didn't thoroughly enjoy Calendar Girls has a severe mental disability where they they live in a fantasy world full-time!

This is one of those very few movies that you can watch again and again and still laugh your head off. Just the thing to brighten your day if you're feeling down.

Fifteen years later, the film still holds up with three of the actresses becoming Dames (Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton and Helen Mirren). The film is about twelve Yorkshire women, ordinary wives and mothers who bare all for charity to raise money for leukemia research. The cast is first rate with Celia Imrie, Annette Crosbie and Linda Bassett as well. The film does a believable job in recreating how a simple idea changed so many lives for the better. I enjoyed their trip to Hollywood and being on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Julie Walters and Helen Mirren played best friends and do a terrific job as well. The cast and the film is first rate. The film inspired a West End musical adaptation as well.

I'm going to start by confessing that I like this movie. Dubious accents aside (and with all due respect to the Yorkshire vocal style, the film is at least understandable this way...), the acting was of a high standard, the dialogue excellent and the key characterisations well drawn. Oh, and it really is funny, in a very unfussy way, as well as touching and occasionally pointed.

That said, neither the subject matter nor the direction particularly suits a cinema presentation; I strongly suspect that however strong the box-office returns, they will be comprehensively eclipsed by the video and DVD sales because this is a deliberately small-scale and intimate movie. Even the periodic, Yorkshire-Tourist-Board issue, panoramic landscape shots don't call for anything much more that a standard issue domestic TV; the film is dialogue and expression driven and frankly doesn't work hard to make you go "wow!" at the spectacle of it all. It does display humanity by the bucketload though and in a very un-Hollywood way, reveals the flaws as well as the strengths of the characters.

If you're looking for a Laugh-out-loud-the-whole-way-through movie, stay away. If you're after a glossy, American-style fable of women winning through despite insurmountable odds, look elsewhere. If you fancy a warm, witty and thoughtful film with actual acting in it, this may appeal. And no matter what, it's still a better use of a cinema screen than "Jackass: The Movie"...

"Calendar Girls" wants to be a female version of "The Full Monty," but it's too tepid for that, though moderately enjoyable for what it is. If you're drawn to it because you think it's a goofy comedy, as the advertisements for it would have you believe, be warned---it's got a good deal of humour, but it's also a very serious film, much more so than "Monty." Helen Mirren and Julie Walters do fine work in the film's lead roles. Mirren particularly has become one of my favorite actresses currently working, and you can always rely on her to deliver the goods. All of the acting in this is good, as a matter of fact. I have a feeling the movie overall wouldn't be half as appealing as it is if it didn't have a British cast. It's just the kind of story that lends itself to a British sensibility.

Nothing special, but you'll probably be entertained.

Grade: B

"Calendar Girls" is a mildly amusing film based upon actual events about a group of mature women in England who, in order to raise money, spice up the annual fund-raising calendar by appearing nude. Except for the script, a lot of effort went into this production. I would have swapped the two leads because Helen Mirren's strong suit is not comedy. There are funny scenes, but instead of being light, a soap opera sub-plot is tossed in mid-way. What should have been a gem, becomes a rock.

GRADE = "C-"