
02 Sep 2003

Calendar Girls
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

A Romantic Comedy of Generous Proportions
Daisy is the love of Ken's life - she is also large... and very pretty... and on the dole. But Ken is a dreamer, all his dreams to make a fast buck ending up where they started - as dreams. With the rent unpaid, the bailiffs at the door and Ken's dreams in tatters, Daisy sets out to bring home the bacon and gets a job in the local factory. There she meets Marlene and half a dozen other large women who are all united in a secret passion - Sumo wrestling! Ken doesn't know what's hit him.

Daisy / Great White Jellyfish

Ken

Marlene / Priestress of Elements
Billy

Paul

Beth Trailor / Amazon Woman No. 1
Sue
Janice
Mrs Selby
Pygmy Hippo

Typhoon
Doris / Woolly Mammoth
Patricia / She Elephant

Pamela / Giant Butterfly

Anne / Polar Bear

Sarah / Raging Bull
Emma / Mighty Walrus
Julie / Sea Cow
Kate / Big White Orca
Takeshi

02 Sep 2003

Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

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24 Mar 1984

When each is unlucky at love, a TV writer-director and a research scientist begin seeing each other.

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Iris is a shy and dowdy young woman stuck in a dead-end job at a match factory, who dreams of finding love at the local dancehall. Finding herself pregnant after a one-night stand and abandoned by the father, Iris finally decides the time has come to get even and she begins to plot her revenge.

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A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.

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