[Steppes] OT - Calendar Girls

[Michelle Dodd]

Wow!!! I just got back from seeing Calendar Girls. This is an Excellent 
movie. I highly recommend it. For the Harry Potter fans, Julie Walters, who 
plays Mrs. Weasley in HP, plays Annie in Calendar Girls. She does an 
excellent job in another role as a strong woman. Even knowing that she was 
in the movie, I had to look carefully to see her in the character, she does 
such a great job.

The movie is based on a true story, you may remember reading about it in the 
papers or seeing some of the ladies on Jay Leno a few years ago. The 
following is a plot summary. As I said I highly recommend this movie. I know 
at some moments I was crying & at others I, as well as other people in the 
audience, was laughing out loud.

Calendar Girls is about the women of the Rylstone Women's Institute in North 
Yorkshire. This Women's Group produces a calendar each year based around 
scenes of the Yorkshire dales. In 1999, one of the ladies husbands became 
ill with leukemia. He would say that if the ladies planted Sunflowers, he'd 
make sure he'd get better so he could see them. Unfortunately, he didn't 
pull through and in order to raise funds for Leukemia research the women 
decided to make an alternative calendar of themselves in the nude hoping to 
sell a few hundred copies around their villages. This calendar in fact 
became a worldwide sensation, out-selling even those of Britney Spears and 
Cindy Crawford.



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