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Calendar Girls

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.

The ladies want to raise money for a new couch in the hospital's waiting room, to be dedicated to the memory of John (John Alderton), husband to Annie (Julie Walters), whose life was taken from cancer.

Chris (Helen Mirren) gets the idea to take their yearly calendar to a place it hasn't been before. With the help of Lawrence (Philip Glenister), a photographer, and some needed funding, the ladies are on the way to exposing their message.

Calendar Girls is a pleasing and uplifting movie, for the warm and humorous performances, but above all, for the caring message it delivered. And when things did not look like they were going in the right direction and feelings were being swept to the corner; friendship and love whipped together in a tangy comical tongue to help refresh the worn down feelings and bring the glimmer of hope back to them all.

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. To be able to drop the fuddy duddy and stubborn minded ways, of what has been drilled into so many minds as right, proper and respectable, and be able to see and feel what the message truly stands behind, is an achievement that goes a long way, right to the center of one's heart.

Along with the phenomenal acting of Helen Mirren and Julie Walters who both delivered such poignant and sassy lines, the lively cast included; Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Ciaran Hinds, Celia Imrie, Geraldine James, and Penelope Wilton, who all made Calendar Girls a tremendously feel-good and special movie to watch. Not to be forgotten, is how enchanted I was by the scenery, the coziness of the homes and the poem that Annie's husband wrote about the Sunflower, all so lovely and moving.

The DVD extras include "The Naked Truth" documentary, "Creating The Calendar" documentary, deleted scenes, previews and Dolby digital 5.1 surround sound.

Calendar Girls shows what it means to go for it all and not look back. If in your heart you know it is for something good, chances are it will find a way to prove its intended message.

I felt joy and admiration in what these ladies succeeded in doing so fabulously and classy.

Written by: Lynda Dale MacLean

Reviewers Rating: 7.5
Reader's Rating: 7.25
Reader's Votes: 4

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