Details

Release year: 2003

Storyline

Best friends Chris and Annie are members of a charitable institute. When Annie's husband succumbs to leukemia, the friends decide to pose nude for a calendar to raise funds for a local hospital.

Top credits

Directors

Nigel Cole

Writers

Cast

Helen Mirren — Chris
Julie Walters — Annie
Penelope Wilton — Ruth
John Alderton — John

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Did you know

• The real-life Women's Institute members (Angela Baker, Beryl Bamforth, Christine Clancy, Ros Fawcett, Lynda Logan and Tricia Stewart) on which this movie was based all appear as members of Highgyll W.I. in the scene in the marquee at Knapely Show where Rylstone and Highgyll are competing for cookery prizes.

• During the making of this movie, Dame Helen Mirren's brother was dying of cancer. She was given the news he had died on the day they came to film the funeral scenes. Her tears and grief are real.

• Contrary to the depiction in this movie, the proposal for the calendar enjoyed broad support in the Women's Institute organization.