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Middle aged Chris Harper (Dame Helen Mirren) and Annie Clarke (Dame Julie Walters) are best friends. They spend much of their time at their local Knapely, Yorkshire County chapter of the Womens Institute (WI), whose motto is "enlightenment, fun, and friendship". Although they like most of the women at the WI (the friendship part), they, but the perceived flaky Chris in particular, hold the way Marie (Geraldine James), the local President, runs the chapter with derision. They find much of what goes on there, especially the monthly presentations, banal and devoid of enlightenment and fun. Equally as banal was last years fund-raising calendar, featuring local bridges, which raised a meager £75.60, with this years proposed calendar, local churches, promising to be even more so. After Annies husband John (John Alderton) dies from leukemia, Chris wants the WI to provide a memorial in his memory: a new sofa for the family room at the hospital. The one Chris wants to buy costs nine hundred ninety-nine pounds sterling, which she proposes to raise by changing the fund-raising calendar to one featuring tasteful photographs of nude Knapely WI members. She got the idea by seeing all around her the notion of the old adage that sex sells. Annie likes the idea as it is analogous to one of horticultural-loving Johns last statements about plants being the most glorious in the latter stages of their life, after which they quickly go to seed. To get the project off the ground, they not only have to convince nine other WI members to pose (December to be a group photograph), but they have to find a photographer they trust that will treat this task as an art project. Conversely, they arent sure if they and the calendar will meet with the same contempt from Marie, the national WI organization and their friends and family that they are so trying to change in the Knapely WI, and in the process not only not raise the necessary money, but, in fact lose money instead. or the project in any form may have its own consequences, especially for Chris.
This movie is about the women of the Rylstone Womens Institute in North Yorkshire. This Womens 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, hed make sure hed get better so he could see them. Unfortunately, he didnt 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.
Helen Mirren
Chris
Julie Walters
Annie
Penelope Wilton
Ruth
John Alderton
John
Linda Bassett
Cora
Annette Crosbie
Jessie
Philip Glenister
Lawrence
Ciarán Hinds
Rod
Celia Imrie
Celia
Geraldine James
Marie
George Costigan
Eddie
Graham Crowden
Richard
John Fortune
Frank
Georgie Glen
Kathy
Angela Curran
May
Rosalind March
Trudy
John-Paul MacLeod
Jem
Marc Pickering
Gaz
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