Calendar Girls is a 2003 comedy film directed by Nigel Cole. Produced by Harbour Pictures, it features a screenplay by Tim Firth and Juliette Towhidi, based on a true story of a group of middle-aged Yorkshire women who produced a nude calendar to raise money for Leukaemia Research (subsequently Blood Cancer UK) under the auspices of the Women's Institutes in April 1999 after the husband of one of their members dies from cancer. The film stars an ensemble cast headed by Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, with Linda Bassett, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton, Geraldine James, Harriet Thorpe and Philip Glenister playing key supporting roles.

Plot

Friends Annie Clarke and Chris Harper live in Knapely, Yorkshire, where they attend the local Women's Institute (WI) group. After Annie's husband, John, is diagnosed with terminal leukaemia, the two regularly visit him at the hospital. Chris complains about the uncomfortable couch in the waiting room. After noticing a nude calendar in a local mechanic's shop, she comes up with an idea to raise funds to buy a new sofa. Chris proposes producing a calendar featuring other female members of the WI discreetly posing nude while engaged in traditional WI activities, such as baking, knitting and playing the piano.