The Full Monty

3.00
    The Full Monty
    1997

    Synopsis

    Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.

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    Cast

    • Robert CarlyleGary "Gaz" Schofield
    • Mark AddyDave Horsefall
    • Wim SnapeNathan Schofield
    • Steve HuisonLomper
    • Tom WilkinsonGerald Arthur Cooper
    • Paul BarberBarrington "Horse" Mitchell
    • Hugo SpeerGuy
    • Lesley SharpJean Horsefall
    • Emily WoofMandy
    • Deirdre CostelloLinda Cooper

    Recommendations

    • 88

      Chicago Tribune

      Takes a premise that seems ripe for broad, vulgar joking and turns it into a sly, even subtle, comedy.
    • 88

      USA Today

      Such pure, naked joy is utterly contagious.
    • 80

      The A.V. Club

      A winning mix of humor and poignant character examination, and a satisfying film.
    • 80

      Chicago Reader

      This wonderful 1997 comedy--about an unlikely group of men who are determined to strip to music rather than get day jobs--is genuinely effective at inverting gender stereotypes and other assumptions, and it's not the slightest bit heavy-handed.
    • 80

      Los Angeles Times

      If you don't go expecting the depth and subtlety of a Mike Leigh working-class film, The Full Monty can be heart-warming fun with more serious undertones than you might have expected. [13 August 1997, Calendar, p.F-5]
    • 75

      Chicago Sun-Times

      The director, Peter Cattaneo, takes material that could would be at home in a sex comedy, and gives it gravity because of the desperation of the characters; we glimpse the home life of these men, who have literally been put on the shelf, and we see the wound to their pride.
    • 75

      Christian Science Monitor

      Peter Cattaneo's comedy has brash and boisterous scenes, but its message about the humiliations of unemployment is serious and insightful, and applies far beyond the English setting of this story.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      Originality may be at a premium here, but The Full Monty offers plenty of opportunities for laughter and genial smiles.

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