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Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls
Calendar Girls.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Nigel Cole
Produced by Nick Barton
Written by Tim Firth
Juliette Towhidi
Starring Helen Mirren
Julie Walters
Linda Bassett
Annette Crosbie
Celia Imrie
Penelope Wilton
Music by Patrick Doyle
Cinematography Ashley Rowe
Edited by Michael Parker
Production
company
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures
Release date
  • 2 September 2003 (2003-09-02)
Running time
108 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $10 million
Box office $96.5 million

Calendar Girls is a 2003 British 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 Women's Institutes in April 1999.

Starring an ensemble cast headed by Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, with Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton and Geraldine James playing key supporting roles, the film garnered generally positive reactions by film critics, and at a budget of $10 million it became a major success, eventually grossing $96,000,000 worldwide following its theatrical release in the United States. In addition, the picture was awarded the British Comedy Award for Best Comedy Film, and spawned ALFS Award Empire Award, Satellite Award and Golden Globe nominations for Mirren and Walters respectively.

In 2008 the film was adapted into a stage play.


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