Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls is a 2003 comedy film directed by Nigel Cole. Produced by Buena Vista International and Touchstone Pictures, it features a screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi based on a true story of a group of Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research under the auspices of the Womens Institutes in April 1999.
When Annie Clarkes husband John dies from leukaemia at an early age, her close friend Chris Harper, anxious to purchase a comfortable sofa for the visitors lounge in the hospital where he was treated, hits upon the idea of printing a calendar featuring some of the members of the Knapely branch of the Womens Institute discreetly posing nude while engaged in traditional WI activities, such as baking and knitting, in order to raise funds. Her proposal initially is met with great scepticism, but she eventually convinces ten women to participate in the project with her. They enlist one of the hospital workers, an amateur photographer named Lawrence, to help them with the concept.The head of the local Womens Institute branch refuses to sanction the calendar, and Chris and Annie go to a national congress of the Womens Institute in London to plead their case. They are told the final decision rests with the local leader, who grudgingly agrees to the calendars sale. The initial printing quickly sells out, and before long the tiny village is bombarded with members of the international media anxious to report the feelgood story. ........
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