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Calendar Girls

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Calendar Girls

Starring:

Julie Walters, Helen Mirren, Julie Waters, Penelope Wilton, Annette Crosbie

Director:

Nigel Cole

Release Date:

December 19, 2003 (NY/LA).

MPAA Rating:

PG-13

Distributor:

Touchstone

Description:

This film tells the true (but slightly fictionalized) story of 11 middle-aged women, ages 45 to 60, from the small village of Rylstone in Yorkshire, England who posed naked for the annual calendar of local branch of the Women's Institute, to raise money for medical research, after one of the husband, John Baker, of one of the members, Angela Baker (Walters), becomes terminally ill from leukemia.

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