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The Full Monty
Full monty.jpg
US release poster

Directed by
Peter Cattaneo
Produced by
Uberto Pasolini
Written by
Simon Beaufoy
Starring
Robert Carlyle
Mark Addy
William Snape
Steve Huison
Tom Wilkinson
Paul Barber
Hugo Speer
Music by
Anne Dudley
Cinematography
John de Borman
Editing by
David Freeman
 Nick Moore
Studio
Redwave Films
Channel Four Films
Distributed by
Fox Searchlight Pictures (US)
20th Century Fox (UK)
Release dates
13 August 1997 (US)
29 August 1997 (UK)

Running time
91 minutes[1]
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Budget
£3 million[2] ($3.5 million)[3]
Box office
£160,049,344 ($257,850,122)[3]
The Full Monty is a 1997 British comedy-drama film directed by Peter Cattaneo, starring Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber, and Hugo Speer. The screenplay was written by Simon Beaufoy. The film is set in Sheffield, England, and it tells the story of six unemployed men, four of them former steel workers, who decide to form a male striptease act (à la Chippendale dancers) in order to gather enough money to get somewhere else and for main character, Gaz, to be able to see his son. Gaz declares that their show will be better than the Chippendales dancers because they will go "the full monty" — strip all the way — hence the film's title. Despite being a comedy, the film also touches on serious subjects such as unemployment, fathers' rights, depression, impotence, homosexuality, obesity, working class culture and suicide. The film was rated a 15 in Britain for "frequent strong language".
The Full Monty was a major critical success upon release and an unexpected international commercial success, grossing over $250 million from a budget of only $3.5 million. It was the highest grossing film in the UK until it was outsold by Titanic. It was ultimately nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Music Score, winning the latter.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Production 3.1 The Reel Monty
3.2 Language
4 Release 4.1 Critical reception
4.2 Awards and recognition
4.3 Controversy
5 Soundtrack
6 Stage adaptation
7 References
8 External links

Plot[edit]
The once-successful steel mills of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, have shut down and most of the employees have been laid off. Former steel workers Gary "Gaz" Schofield and Dave Horsefall (who worked at their steel mills, called Harrison's, for ten years) have resorted to stealing scrap metal from the abandoned mills to sell. Gaz is facing trouble from his ex-wife, Mandy and her boyfriend Barry over child support payments that he's failed to make since losing his job. Gaz's son, Nathan, loves his father but wishes they could do more "normal stuff" in their time together.
One day, Gaz spots a crowd of women lined up outside a local club to see a Chippendale's striptease act. He gets the idea to form his own strip tease group using local men in hopes of making enough money to pay off his child support obligations. The first to join the group is Lomper, a security guard at Harrison's, the steel mill where Dave and Gaz once worked. Severely depressed, Lomper attempts to commit suicide, but is rescued by Dave who convinces him to join the group. Next they recruit Gerald Cooper, a former manager at the plant, who has been hiding from his wife the fact that he's been laid off. Gaz and Dave see Gerald and his wife, Linda (Deidre Costello), at a dance class and recruit him to teach them some actual dance moves.
The four men hold an open audition to recruit more members and settle on Horse, an older man who is nevertheless a good dancer, and Guy, who can't dance but proves to be well-endowed when he exposes himself. When they are approached by local women while they are hanging up posters for the show, Gaz declares that their show will be better than the Chippendale's dancers because they'll go "the full monty" and remove all their clothes, to the others' chagrin. During the rehearsals, Dave drops out due to body image issues and gets a job as a security guard at Asda. The others try a public rehearsal at the abandoned factory in front of several female relatives of Horse, but they are caught mid-show by a passing policeman and arrested, though no charges are finally filed. Due to the arrest, Gaz loses the right to see Nathan. But the sting makes the front page of the newspaper, making them famous. Lomper and Guy are the only ones who escape the police and run to Lomper's house, where they start a relationship. Later Gaz arrives at Asda and asks Dave if he could borrow a jacket for Lomper's mother's funeral to which he agrees and also decides to quit his job and they go the funeral.
They decide to forgo the plan, until Gaz learns that the show is sold out, and convinces the others (including Gerald, who just landed a job) to do it for one night only. Dave, having re-gained his confidence with encouragement from his wife, Jean, joins the rest of the group minutes before they go on stage. However, Gaz himself refuses to do it because there are men in the audience, even when Nathan, who has secretly come, tells him that Mandy is there. Nathan later forces his hand and Gaz, proud of his son, performs in front of the audience and Mandy, who seems to see him in a new light.
The film ends with the group on stage in front of a packed house, stripping to Tom Jones' version of You Can Leave Your Hat On (their hats being the final item removed) with an astounding success.
Cast[edit]
Robert Carlyle as Gary "Gaz" Schofield
Mark Addy as Dave Horsefall
William Snape as Nathan Schofield
Steve Huison as Lomper
Tom Wilkinson as Gerald Cooper
Paul Barber as Barrington "Horse" Mitchell
Hugo Speer as Guy
Lesley Sharp as Jean Horsefall
Emily Woof as Mandy
Deirdre Costello as Linda Cooper
Paul Butterworth as Barry
Dave Hill as Alan
Bruce Jones as Reg
Andrew Livingston as Terry
Vinny Dhillon as Sharon
Andy Smith as Clive (Uncredited)
Production[edit]
Channel 4 Films paid for the screenplay to be written but then declined to invest any equity in the film.
The famous "Hot Stuff" scene, in which the characters dance in the queue at the job centre, was originally going to be cut from the final production as it was "too unrealistic".[citation needed]
The cast allegedly agreed that all six of them would really do the "full monty" strip at the end in front of 400 extras, provided they had to do only one take. Therefore, the choreographer, Suzanne Darley-Grand, was hiding in front of the stage, just beyond the camera view, screaming directions at the cast during the closing scene.[citation needed]
The Reel Monty[edit]
The opening sequence of the Sheffield promotion film from 1972 is taken from City on the Move, a film commissioned by Peter Wigley, Sheffield's first ever publicity officer, to convince people that Sheffield was a centre for tourism and commerce. City on the Move was produced and directed by Jim and Marie-Luise Coulthard and showed a modern thriving city that was rapidly developing thanks to the successful steel industry in Sheffield. However, the film went virtually unnoticed until the Coulthards were approached about some of the footage being included in The Full Monty for a payment of £400, which they accepted. In 2008, City on the Move was released on DVD under the new name The Reel Monty.[4][5]
Language[edit]
Main article: Full monty (phrase)
The film features frequent use of British slang, and in particular the slang of Sheffield.
The film's title is a phrase generally used in the UK to mean 'the whole lot', or 'the whole hog'; in the film, the characters use it to refer to full nudity — as Horse says, "No one said anything to me about the full monty!"
Other dialect words are used in the film; some such as nesh (meaning a person unusually susceptible to cold) are used in Northern England as a whole. Jennel (an alley) is local to Sheffield:[6] it is a variation on the word "ginnel", which is in full versions of the Oxford Dictionary and is used in many parts of England.
Release[edit]
Critical reception[edit]
The film surprised the critics when it was first released, earning near universal acclaim. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 95% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 40 reviews, with an average score of 7.6/10,[7] and went on to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Awards and recognition[edit]
The Full Monty won the BAFTA Award for Best Film in 1997, beating out presumed frontrunners Titanic and L.A Confidential, and Carlyle won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. It was nominated for a total of four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Music Score, and Best Original Screenplay. In 1997 the Academy Award for Best Original Score was split up into two categories: Dramatic and Musical or Comedy. In light of 1997's big winner, Titanic, the film won only the Oscar for Best Original Music Score (Musical or Comedy) by Anne Dudley, with the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars going to Titanic and its director James Cameron, and the Best Original Screenplay Oscar going to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon for Good Will Hunting. The film was also nominated for the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics.
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Full Monty the 49th greatest comedy film of all time. By that year it earned an estimated ₤170 million at the box office world wide.[2]
Controversy[edit]
New Zealand playwrights Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair filed a £180 million lawsuit against the producers of The Full Monty in 1998. They claim that the film blatantly infringed on their play Ladies Night, which toured both Britain and New Zealand.[8][9] Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair created a website containing their play in response to statements from the producers of The Full Monty that claimed the two productions were not alike. The underlying rights were attributed to co-producer, Paul Bucknor, and the lawsuit was settled out of court; as part of the agreement, the website containing Ladies Night was shut down.[10]
Soundtrack[edit]

The Full Monty: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack

Soundtrack album by Various Artists

Released
1997
Genre
Disco, Pop, Dance
Length
41:12
Label
RCA
The Full Monty: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack is the Academy Award-winning soundtrack to the 1997 film The Full Monty. The winning score was composed by Anne Dudley.

Professional ratings

Review scores

Source
Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars link
1."The Zodiac" - David Lindup (3:06)
2."You Sexy Thing" - Hot Chocolate (4:03)
3."You Can Leave Your Hat On" - Tom Jones (4:26)
4."Moving on Up" - M People (5:29)
5."Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel (3:59)
6."The Full Monty" - Anne Dudley (3:04)
7."The Lunchbox Has Landed" - Anne Dudley (2:14)
8."Land of a Thousand Dances" - Wilson Pickett (2:24)
9."Rock & Roll, Pt. 2" - Gary Glitter (3:02)
10."Hot Stuff" - Donna Summer (3:49)
11."We Are Family" - Sister Sledge (3:35)
12."Flashdance... What a Feeling" - Irene Cara (3:49)
13."The Stripper" - Joe Loss & His Orchestra (2:11)
Stage adaptation[edit]
Main article: The Full Monty (musical)
The film was adapted into a 2000 Broadway musical of the same name; the characters and setting were Americanized.
It was also adapted into a stage play by the original screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, which opened at the Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield on 2 February 2013, directed by Sheffield Theatres artistic director Daniel Evans, before embarking on a national tour.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "THE FULL MONTY (15)". 20th Century Fox. British Board of Film Classification. 19 May 1997. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Alexander Walker, Icons in the Fire: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everyone in the British Film Industry 1984-2000, Orion Books, 2005 p280
3.^ Jump up to: a b "The Full Monty (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
4.Jump up ^ See Sheffield reel time in 1969, The Star, 8 October 2008. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
5.Jump up ^ The Reel Monty website
6.Jump up ^ Putting SY on the wordmap, BBC, 22 August 2005
7.Jump up ^ The Full Monty at Rotten Tomatoes
8.Jump up ^ Writers sue over The Full Monty, BBC News, 4 March 1998
9.Jump up ^ 'Ladies' fight.', Campbell, Gordon. Listener p.25-26; 26 Sept 1998.
10.Jump up ^ Hollywood Plagiarism, Weird Realm Film Reviews. Retrieved 1 October 2007.
External links[edit]
 Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: The Full Monty
The Full Monty at the Internet Movie Database
The Full Monty at Box Office Mojo
The Full Monty at Rotten Tomatoes
The Full Monty at Metacritic
Monty Mania — Ultimate guide to The Full Monty
The Full Monty — Where that film title came from
The Reel Monty — The film that fronts The Full Monty
Production: The Full Monty - Working in the Theatre Seminar video at American Theatre Wing.org, September 2000


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