Movie: "Calendar Girls"

Release Date: Dec 2003 Genres: Drama / Comedy Awards: Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 2 wins & 12 nominations Runtime: 108 min Cast: Helen Mirren (Chris Harper), Julie Walters (Annie Clarke) John Alderton (John Clarke) Linda Bassett (Cora) Annette Crosbie (Jessie) Philip Glenister (Lawrence Sertain) Ciarán Hinds (Rod Harper) Celia Imrie (Celia) Geraldine James (Marie) Penelope Wilton (Ruth Reynoldson) George Costigan (Eddie Reynoldson) Graham Crowden (Richard) John Fortune (Frank) Georgie Glen (Kathy) Angela Curran (May Wilkinson)

Storyline

Calendar Girls is about the women of the Rylstone Women's Institute in North Yorkshire. This Women's Group produces a calendar each year based around scenes of the Yorkshire dales. In 1999, one of the ladies husbands became ill with leukemia. He would say that if the ladies planted Sunflowers, he'd make sure he'd get better so he could see them. Unfortunately, he didn't pull through and in order to raise funds for Leukemia research the women decided to make an alternative calendar of themselves in the nude hoping to sell a few hundred copies around their villages. This calendar in fact became a worldwide sensation, out-selling even those of Britney Spears and Cindy Crawford.