Movies The latest movie news, casting updates and rumors, trailer sneak peeks, and expert reviews on MTV. A pair of front-runners to star in Shazam emerge, along with a working plot synopsis for David F. Sandberg's DC Extended Universe film. We're getting closer to a Shazam! casting announcement after some audition tapes made their way online, but what did the lines in the script reveal? 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.

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The Full Monty - Wikipedia. The Full Monty is a 1. 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, England and, starting off with a travelogue of the city in 1. Chippendale dancers) in order to gather enough money to get somewhere else and for the 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, body image, working class culture and suicide. The Full Monty was a major critical success upon release and an unexpected international commercial success, grossing over $2.

It was the highest- grossing film in the UK until it was outsold by Titanic. It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Music Score, winning the last. The film was later adapted into the 2. The Full Monty, and the 2. Kitchen Nightmares Uk Season 3 Episode 3 more.

The Full Monty. The once- successful steel mills of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, have shut down and most of the staff have been made redundant. Former steelworkers Gary "Gaz" Schofield and Dave Horsefall have resorted to stealing scrap metal from the abandoned mills to sell. Gaz is facing trouble from his former wife, Mandy and her boyfriend, Barry over child support payments that he has failed to pay 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 the steel mill where Dave and Gaz once worked. Depressed, Lomper attempts suicide, but is rescued by Dave who convinces him to join the group. Next, they recruit Gerald Cooper, their former foreman at the mill, who is hiding the fact that he is unemployed from his wife.

Gaz and Dave see Gerald and his wife, Linda, 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 himself to be well- endowed. The six men begin to practice their act. Gaz then learns that he has to pay £1. He cannot afford this, but Nathan gets the money out of his savings. When they are greeted by two local women while they put up posters for the show, Gaz boasts they're better than the real Chippendales because they go "the full monty".

Dave drops out due to body image issues and gets a job as a security guard at Asda. Watch Marco Polo Season 1 Episode 10. The others do a public rehearsal at the mill in front of some female relatives of Horse, but are caught mid- show by a passing policeman, and Gaz, Gerald and Horse are arrested for indecent exposure.

This costs Gaz the right to see Nathan. Lomper and Guy manage to escape arrest, and go to Lomper's house where they look lovingly at each other, starting a relationship. Gerald, meanwhile is thrown out by Linda after bailiffs arrive at their house and seize their belongings to pay Gerald's debts, resulting in him having to stay with Gaz. Later Gaz goes to Asda and asks Dave if he could borrow a jacket for Lomper's mother's funeral. Dave agrees and also decides to quit his job and they go to the funeral together. Soon, the group find the act and arrest has made them famous. They decide to forgo the plan, until Gaz learns that the show is sold out.

He convinces the others to do it for one night only. Gerald is unsure as he has now got the job that Gaz and Dave earlier tried to sabotage his interview for, but agrees to do it just once. Initially, Dave still refuses, however regains his confidence after encouragement from his wife, Jean, and joins the rest of the group minutes before they go on stage. Nathan also arrives with Dave, having secretly come along, and tells Gaz that Mandy is there but she would not let Barry go with her.

However, Gaz himself refuses to do the act because there are men in the audience (including the police force members who watched the footage of the security camera's recording of them earlier), when the posters were supposed to say it was for women only. The other five are starting the act when Nathan orders his father to go out on stage. Gaz, proud of his son, joins the others and performs in front of the audience and Mandy, who seems to see him in a new light. The film ends with the group performing 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.

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 4. 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]Locations[edit]The film was shot entirely on location in and around Sheffield, except for a couple of locations in Shirebrook, Derbyshire.[3]The Reel Monty[edit]The opening sequence of the Sheffield promotion film from 1.

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 £4. In 2. 00. 8, City on the Move was released on DVD under the new name The Reel Monty.[4]Language[edit]The film features frequent use of English slang, and in particular Sheffielder dialect. The film's title is a phrase generally used in the United Kingdom 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!" The phrase, whose origin is obscure, gained a renewed prominence in British culture following the film. Other dialect words are used in the film; some such as nesh (meaning a person unusually susceptible to cold) are widespread across the North Midlands region. Jennel (an alley) is local to Sheffield: [5] it is a variation on the word "ginnel", which is in full versions of the Oxford English 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 9.

Academy Award for Best Picture. When the film was released in the United Kingdom, it topped the box office for the next three weekends, before being overtaken by Contact.[7][8][9][1. Accolades and recognition[edit]The Full Monty won the BAFTA Award for Best Film in 1. 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.