“There’s a difference between naarked and neoood,” explains Chris to her sister conspirators who are about to get their kit off for a charity fundraiser.
Calendar Girls is a British comedy that has its origins in the true-life story of a group of middle-aged Yorkshire women and Women’s Institute members who posed for a range of creative scenes while largely unclothed.
The whole escapade begins when Annie’s (Nicole Domett) husband John (Ron Dalton) dies of cancer and her friend Chris (Lucinda Heslin-Wightman) hatches a plan to create a nude calendar motivated by the desire to say a little “thank you” by buying a new sofa for the local hospital’s cancer department.
However, convincing her institute friends into this caper exposes a menagerie of inhibitions sufficient to keep any psychoanalyst busy for years and fertile ground for comedy.
The plan exceeds expectations by a country mile and soon the calendar is attracting interest nationally and raising enough money to fund an entirely new medical wing.
