Calendar Girls

by                          

Tim Firth

Directed by Helen Thorpe

“You’ll Cry with Laughter” The Daily Mail

When her best friend Annie loses her husband to cancer, Northerner Chris cooks up a scheme to memorialize him in an unusual way. The two friends and their fellow WIs decide to make a “nude” “not naked” calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died, specifically to replace the old waiting room settee. However, the calendar becomes a global phenomenon, and the success soon drives a wedge between the two women's friendship. Will their friendship survive? Will they finally get their settee? Will the WI give their approval? Based on a real-life event, Calendar Girls brilliantly balances the poignant stories of several women told with bucket loads of quirky northern humour, as it hilariously follows the calendar's inception & execution, into the media explosion that followed, and subsequent consequences of instant fame. Ultimately, it is an uplifting tale of friendship, loyalty, camaraderie and love in all their glorious guises.  

Heartfelt Humour & Plenty of Buns!