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06/24/06
Calendar Girls (2003)
74 %
Reviews Counted: 117 Fresh: 87 Rotten:30 Average Rating: 6.5/10
Consensus:
A charming, but cliched comedy reminiscent of The Full Monty.
Rated: 12A [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Theatrical Release: 03-09-2003
Synopsis: Based on a true story, Nigel Cole's CALENDAR GIRLS has a mix of comedy and heart-tugging emotion that compares with British comedies FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL and THE FULL MONTY. Annie (Julie Walters) and Chris (Helen Mirren), of bucolic Yorkshire, belong to the Women's Institute (WI),... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Helen Mirren, Julie Waters, John Alderton, Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie
Director: Nigel Cole
Screenwriter: Tim Firth, Juliette Towhidi
Producer: Suzanne Mackie, Nick Barton
Composer: Patrick Doyle
Screenwriter: Tim Firth, Juliette Towhidi
Producer: Suzanne Mackie, Nick Barton
Composer: Patrick Doyle
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Places itself in a tradition of films that are fairly easy to make, looks like it's doing a professional job and still ends up failing.
10/12/03
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10/01/03
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A delight, full of great one-liners, quirky character-based comedy, and two excellent lead performances from Mirren and Walters.
08/12/03
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Beware: This warm and very funny film, based on a true story, is almost criminally crowd-pleasing!
06/19/03
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06/10/03
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05/26/06
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09/26/05
Tampoco hay que ponerse demasiado exigente; (...) la película tiene su gracia y cumple con casi todo lo que promete.
08/31/04
'They dropped everything for a good cause' would seem to refer more to the filmmakers than the gutsy, middle-aged women shedding their clothes for a hospital couch.
08/30/04
Though the last act is formulaic (...) this film has everything we have come to expect from a British feel-good comedy.
08/07/04
...an affable, amusing, and highly diverting piece of typical British whimsy. That all of it really happened is almost beside the point but charming in itself.
05/27/04
Although the material is somewhat slight, Mirren and her cohorts give it weight and verve.
04/09/04
...proves Andy Warhol’s famous dictum, with one added wrinkle: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, especially if you take your clothes off.
02/05/04
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