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The Full Monty is a 1997 comedy film, a story of six unemployed British steel workers who decide to form a male striptease act. It is set in Sheffield, England, and stars Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, William Snape, Steve Huison, Tom Wilkinson, Paul Barber, and Hugo Speer.

The movie was written by Simon Beaufoy and directed by Peter Cattaneo.

It won the Academy Award for Original Music Score for Anne Dudley, and was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture, and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen.

Plot

Gaz (Robert Carlyle) and Dave (Mark Addy) are desperate to make some money, going so far as to try stealing steel beams from the abandoned factory they used to work at. When Gaz finds out that his ex-wife wants full custody of his son Nathan — because he's 700 quid in arrears — Gaz has the idea of stripping to make money. He gets the idea from seeing Dave's wife Jean with some friends at a club watching a Chippendales performance, thinking if they can do it, so can he. Slowly, he assembles a group of similarly desperate men, including his former foreman (Tom Wilkinson) at the factory he used to work at.

As the men try practicing, doubts continue to creep in about whether this is the best way to make some money. When the men are approached on the street by women, Gaz declares that their show will be better because they'll "go the Full Monty" (i.e., strip completely naked). This only adds to Dave's concerns about how an overweight man will look stripping, and he quits with less than a week to go before the show.

While practicing, the rest of the men get caught — literally with their pants down — in the abandoned factory they used for their practice. All seems lost, until the owner of the pub the men want to perform at informs Gaz that he already sold 200 tickets. With not much left to lose — everyone in Sheffield already knows about them from the papers — all the men decide to go for it for one night only. Even Dave, who was having problems with Jean, finds his confidence and joins the rest of the group, stripping to Tom Jones' version of You Can Leave Your Hat On.

Broadway musical

In 2000, The Full Monty was made into a Broadway musical. The production opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, New York, on October 26, 2000, and played 770 performances. David Yazbek wrote the show's music and lyrics, and Patrick Wilson, Jason Danieley, Andre de Shields, Kathleen Freeman, and Emily Skinner led the cast.

Also in 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted The Full Monty the 49th greatest comedy film of all time.

Origins

There are several possible origins of the phrase "The Full Monty", but the most likely seems to be a full three-piece suit with waistcoat and a spare pair of trousers (as opposed to a standard two-piece suit) from the Bradford-based British tailors Montague Burton.

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