| The Full Monty | |
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 UK theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Peter Cattaneo |
| Written by | Simon Beaufoy |
| Produced by | Uberto Pasolini |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | John de Borman |
| Edited by | David Freeman Nick Moore |
| Music by | Anne Dudley |
Production companies | Redwave Films Channel Four Films |
| Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
Release dates |
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Running time | 91 minutes[1] |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $3.5 million[2] |
| Box office | $257.9 million[2] |
The Full Monty is a 1997 British comedy 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 in the North of England during the 1990s, and 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 make some money and for the main character, Gaz, to be able to see his son. Gaz declares that their show will be much better than the renowned 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, body image, working class culture and suicide. The Full Monty was a major critical success upon release and an 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 won the BAFTA Award and European Film Award for Best Film, and was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Musical or Comedy Score, winning the last.
The British Film Institute ranked The Full Monty the 25th best British film of the 20th century. The film was adapted into a musical in 2000, a play in 2013 and a television series. A follow-up TV series to the original 1997 film, filmed in and around Sheffield and Manchester[3] in 2022 and early 2023, was released on 14 June 2023 on Disney+ in the UK and Hulu in the US.
- ^ "The Full Monty (15)". Fox Searchlight Pictures. British Board of Film Classification. 19 May 1997. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
- ^ a b "The Full Monty (1997)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 3 March 2010.
- ^ "All the Yorkshire filming locations for the new Full Monty series on Disney+". Yorkshire Post. 8 June 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2023.