Calendar Girls (2003) | Helen Mirren, Julie Walters | The Most Extraordinary Stage of the...

Calendar Girls (2003) | Helen Mirren, Julie Walters | Very good movie

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Calendar Girls (2003)

	Calendar Girls (2003) Helen Mirren, Julie Walters Walt Disney Video, 2004 average customer review:based on 98 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Most Extraordinary Stage of the Flower.....

What happens when something that smacks of "unfairness" happens to one of your closest friends? The natural response is to want to do something - to somehow make it better. In "Calendar Girls" Chris sets out to do exactly that for her beloved friend, Annie, when Annie's husband, John, dies quickly and almost without warning from leukemia.

There are certain aspects of this film which really spoke to me personally: the women doing Tai Chi together on a glorious, sunny hillside; the deep friendships and compassion -even from the chair person of WI (who had the markings of initially being an adversary); the impact of one's action upon our families; the beauty within each stage of life and finally the grief process itself.

This movie is neither fast paced nor is it "sound bite friendly" - it lingers and speaks to you later as you remember and appreciate the subtle nuances of the characters and appreciate their freshness, candor and for some of them, their reawakening to their beauty.

I highly recommend it - especially as a movie to be savored repeatedly, perhaps slowly after the first viewing. Admire it as you would gladly drink an excellent cup of tea or a glass of fine wine.

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Very good movie

I thought this movie had it all ,it's one of the ones that will make you cry, and laugh it's just a great movie all around ..

Pleasant Diversion!

A pleasant movie depicting small town life in England, and perhaps in other places as well. The friendship of the women is laudable, and that kind of thinking and action is missing from so much of life here in the US. Women who have known each other for many, many years and who obligate themselves to regularly attend scheduled meetings of the Women's Institute, despite boredom and disinterest of many of them with the meetings' agendas. The women still attend, and maintain their contact with each other . . for what? . . for friendship! The nude calendar, where the women are not really shown nude, is a pleasant diversion for them, compensating them for years of listening to experts on broccoli and the vagaries of toast, etc. How realistic is the story??? . . . I hope that places like this do exist.

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BEAUTY KNOWS NO AGE LIMITS

Based on a true story, Nigel Cole's CALENDAR GIRLS is a whimsical, touching, but sometimes trivial movie. Trivial only in that there are many moments when nothing of any real importance happens, and the crisis points are predictably maudlin and overdone. But a delightful cast still manages to entertain. The idea of 50+ ladies a la natural is hard to fathom, but these ladies are so elegantly attractive and the calendar poses so tastefully done, one can't help but get caught up when the calendar becomes an international success.
Helen Mirren, long overdue an Oscar, brings her role as Chris, the instigator of the calendar, to a marvelous fruition. Ciaran Hinds (Sum of All Fears, Lara Croft Cradle of Life) is very good as her husband whose off hand comments to a sneaky newsman causes a rift in their marriage. Julie Walters (Oscar nominated years ago for Educating Rita) matches Mirren in her role as the widow whose husband's death inspires the calendar. The other ladies, Annette Crosbie and Penelope Wilton especially, are all very accomplished in their performances.
Not an earth shaking movie, but an uplifting one in that it proves that beauty is not relegated to the young, maybe the young at heart.

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Good first half

The first half of this movie is really entertaining, funny but with heart. Helen Mirren is great--as usual--in the lead role. Towards the second half, however, things start to drag, and then there's a pointless conflict, along with some unnecessary subplots (such as the son's "drug problem" ehh...).
It's a fun, fine movie though, I just wish it had hung on to its original... gusto (?) through to the second half.

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