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Phillip Glennister's character says to Celia Imrie's character "You look beautiful Celia" he was aiming it at Celia Imrie herself as support. While Cole and his team placed vegetables strategically for shooting, bits kept showing through and they had to reshoot several scenes. However, a young man from digital remastering had to spend four weeks removing all the private parts in post-production. The actors were very supportive of each other, with a bottle of champagne waiting whenever anyone finished their nude scene.
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essentially simple story plays more as a multi-character rondo on a single idea. For every laugh-out-loud moment, or eccentric touch, there are equal moments of reflection and pause
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to play the lead roles in the film. Both actresses had been aware of the WI calendar backstory. Based on Baker, Walters was Cole's first choice to play the "more quiet and sensitive" role of Annie. Known for her comedic roles, Walters initially thought Cole had accidentally offered her the wrong
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critic Derek Elley wrote that the film "delivers very likable, if sometimes dramatically wobbly, results". He found that "though the film is never dull, and playing by the cast is spirited, it's actually a surprisingly gentle movie The humor has a typically
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said, "When the film succeeds, as it does magnificently in the first two-thirds, one can only marvel at the miracle of a world in which such plotlines could literally land on a producer's doorstep with the morning papers. When it fails, it is the film's acknowledgment of its own big-screen
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all of which were sold within three weeks. Nine months after its launch, the calendar had sold 88,000 copies. It then was adapted for a US version covering June 2000 – December 2001. The ladies were invited to appear with
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207:Running time
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2079:28 November
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1310:ALFS Awards
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804:Westminster
673:Development
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420:Los Angeles
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256:comedy film
211:108 minutes
132:Ashley Rowe
115:Celia Imrie
83:Nick Barton
78:Produced by
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2570:2003 films
2564:Categories
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2150:Metacritic
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1956:17 October
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1780:19 January
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1549:References
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364:ALFS Award
294:headed by
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240:Box office
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156:Production
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700:Tim Firth
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392:leukaemia
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158:companies
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216:Country
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