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+ Best Dance Movie of the Year + Best English Movie of the Year + Most Profitable Movie of the Year: 99.66 mil. $ range
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| The festive poster for Peter Cattaneo's The Full Monty |
An ex-steel worker in Sheffield, England has grown tired of being unemployed and also needs to start earning in order to keep part-custody of his son, so he thinks outside the box by getting some other unemployed mates together to do a strip show in which they'll go for 'the full monty'.
Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire (2008)) wrote, and Peter Cattaneo (The Rocker (2008)) directed this crowd-pleasing, wildly amusing smash hit.
Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting (1996)) leads well, and Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton (2007)) is also great as the former boss. So is Mark Addy (Game of Thrones (2011), TV-series) as the mate struggling with his overweight and Lesley Sharp (Afterlife (2005-06)) as his wife. The two share the film's moving moment.
William Snape (Lost a Girl (2015)) is good as Carlyle's understanding son, although SPOILER I did feel it was the wrong move to have the son be the thing that pushes Carlyle to go out and strip in the end.
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| The guys dust off their routine in front of a select audience in Peter Cattaneo's The Full Monty |
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The Full Monty is a wonderfully blended cocktail: It has real local color, not least in the slang incorporated into the dialog. It manages to stick some real issues into a light comedy plot, and the way it deals with its characters and each of their characteristics has a real humanity to it.
There's something inherently funny in watching these awkward men try to make an erotically stimulating show, and their getting to that goal has many options attached, which Beaufoy and Cattaneo have explored deftly.
No wonder Full Monty took the world by storm: It is a delightful film.
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Cost: 3.5 mil. $
Box office: 257.9 mil. $
= Mega-hit
[Channel 4 Films paid to develop the script but did not want to pay for production. - Which they probably regretted later! The documentary reel in the beginning of the film is real, made in 1972 with the title, City on the Move, retitled for a 2008 DVD release as The Reel Monty. SPOILER The actors agreed to strip fully for the final scene in the film in front of 400 extras, provided that it would be a one-take, so the choreographer was hidden in front of the stage, screaming directions to the actors during shooting. The film grossed 45.9 mil. $ in North America (17.8 % of the total gross). It became the highest-grossing film in the UK, where it grossed 84.6 mil. $ (32.8 %), but was overtaken the same year by Titanic. The 3rd biggest market was France with 20.7 mil. $ (8%). Monty won the BAFTAS for Best Film and Best Actor (Carlyle), and it was nominated for 4 Oscars: Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Score (Musical or Comedy), winning just the latter for Anne Dudley (American History X (1998)). Two New Zealand playwrights made a giant lawsuit against Monty over infringement, which settled out of court. The film has been adapted into a Broadway musical and a play. The Full Monty is certified fresh at 95 % with a 7.6 critical average on Rotten Tomatoes.]
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