Calendar Girls (2003)
Directed by Nigel Cole
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
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Also more than holding their own are Christine Baranski ( The Grinch ) and Julie Walters ( Calendar Girls ) as Donnas old friends, the other members of Donna and the Dynamos, their former trio.
Mona Lisa Smile comes to us courtesy of the writing team of Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal, previously responsible for such hallmarks of female empowerment as Superman IV, Mercury Rising and the Planet of the Apes remake, and they’ve scripted this ostensibly more serious, character-driven picture according to the same high-concept principles.
It’s an admittedly intentional and cartoonish contrast, but, even then, the satire falls flat; its rhetorical naffness recalling the meek third act development of that other ‘chocolate box’ depiction of parochial Brits, Calendar Girls , after they’re also sent off to Hollywood fame and fortune.
But the British have always had a soft spot for stories about plucky losers and Dexter Fletcher ’s comic biopic nestles neatly alongside the likes of The Full Monty , Brassed Off and Calendar Girls .