Calendar Girls [DVD]

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, becomes terminally ill from leukemia. Direction: Nigel Cole Actors: Annette Crosbie, Helen Mirren, John Alderton. Special Features: Full frame format. Language: English Year: 2003 Runtime: 108 minutes