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{{short description|1997 British black comedy film by Peter Cattaneo}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = The Full Monty
| image          = TheFullMonty.UKtheatricalposter.jpg

| caption        = British theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Peter Cattaneo]]
| producer       = [[Uberto Pasolini]]
| writer         = [[Simon Beaufoy]]
| starring       = {{Plainlist| <!-- per poster billing -->
* [[Robert Carlyle]]
* [[Tom Wilkinson]]
* [[Mark Addy]]}}
| music          = [[Anne Dudley]]
| cinematography = [[John de Borman]]
| editing        = David Freeman<br />[[Nick Moore (film director)|Nick Moore]]
| studio         = Redwave Films<br />[[Film4 Productions|Channel Four Films]]
| distributor    = [[Fox Searchlight Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|df=y|1997|08|13|United States|1997|08|29|United Kingdom}}
| runtime        = 91 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 91:27--><ref>{{cite web|title=''The Full Monty'' (15)|url= https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/the-full-monty-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0zmtaznjc |work=[[Fox Searchlight Pictures]]|publisher=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=19 May 1997|access-date=21 September 2013}}</ref>
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = $3.5&nbsp;million<ref name="Mojo">{{cite web | url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0119164/?ref_=bo_rl_ti | title = ''The Full Monty'' (1997) | website = [[Box Office Mojo]] | access-date = 3 March 2010}}</ref>
| gross          = $257.9&nbsp;million<!-- ONLY USE ROUNDED FIGURES, I.E. $3,192,318 = $3.2 MILLION --><ref name="Mojo" />
}}
'''''The Full Monty''''' is a 1997 British [[comedy]] film directed by [[Peter Cattaneo]], written by [[Simon Beaufoy]], and starring [[Robert Carlyle]], [[Tom Wilkinson]] and [[Mark Addy]]. 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 [[Chippendales|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 Chippendales because they will go "[[the full monty]]"—[[Striptease|strip]] all the way.

Despite being a comedy, the film also touches on serious subjects such as [[unemployment]], [[fathers' rights]], [[Depression (mood)|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 $257&nbsp;million from a budget of only $3.5&nbsp;million. It was the [[List of highest-grossing films in the United Kingdom|highest-grossing film in the UK]] until it was outsold by ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]''. It won the [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|BAFTA]] and [[European Film Award for Best Film|European Film Award]] for Best Film, and the [[Academy Award for Best Original Score]]. It was also nominated for [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], Best Director, and [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]].

''The Full Monty'' was released in the United Kingdom on 29 August 1997. The [[British Film Institute]] ranked the film the [[BFI Top 100 British films|25th best British film of the 20th century]]. It was adapted into [[The Full Monty (musical)|a musical in 2000]] and [[The Full Monty (play)|a play in 2013]]. [[The Full Monty (TV series)|A follow-up TV series]] was released in 2023.

==Plot==
In the mid-1990s, the once-successful steel mills of [[Sheffield]], [[South Yorkshire]] have shut down and most of the workers have been [[made redundant]]. Former steelworkers Gary "Gaz" Schofield and Dave Horsfall resort to stealing scrap metal from the abandoned mills and selling it to make money, taking Gaz's son Nathan with them for assistance, but a security guard keeps surprising them and locking them inside the mill.

Gaz is facing trouble from his former wife Mandy and her boyfriend Barry over [[child support]] payments that he cannot pay since losing his job. Nathan lives with Mandy and Barry but Gaz has joint custody of him with Mandy. Mandy is seeking a court ruling giving her sole custody of Nathan.

One day, Gaz spots a crowd of women lined up outside a club to see a [[Chippendales|Chippendales']] [[striptease]] act, and is inspired to form his own striptease group using local men, hoping to make enough money to pay off his child support obligations. The first to join the group is Lomper, a security guard at the mill where Dave and Gaz once worked, whose suicide attempt they interrupt. Next, they recruit Gerald Cooper, their former foreman, who is hiding his unemployment from his wife. Gaz and Dave see Gerald and his wife, Linda, at a dance class, and recruit him to teach them some moves.

Looking for more recruits, the four men hold an open audition and settle on Horse, an older man who is a good dancer, and Guy, who cannot dance but proves to be unusually well-endowed. The six men begin to practise their act. Gaz then learns that he has to pay a £100 deposit to secure the club for the night. He cannot afford this, but Nathan gets the money out of his savings, saying that he trusts Gaz to repay him. When they are greeted by two women while putting up posters for the show, Gaz boasts that they are better than the real Chippendales because they go "the [[Full monty (phrase)|full monty]]". Dave, struggling with his body image, drops out and finds a job as a security guard at [[Asda]]. The others publicly rehearse at the mill for some female relatives of Horse, but a passing policeman catches them mid-show, and Gaz, Gerald and Horse are arrested for indecent exposure, costing Gaz the right to see Nathan. Lomper and Guy escape to Lomper's house and start a relationship.

Gerald is thrown out by Linda after [[bailiff]]s 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 security job. They steal two suit jackets and go to the funeral.

Soon, the group find that the act and their arrest has popularised them. They agree to forgo the plan, until Gaz learns that the show is sold out. He convinces the others to do it just for one night only. Initially Dave still refuses, but 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.

Gaz refuses to do the act because there are men in the audience (including the police officers 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 Gaz 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. Their act is a success.

==Cast==
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* [[Robert Carlyle]] as Gary "Gaz" Schofield
* [[Mark Addy]] as Dave Horsfall
* [[Tom Wilkinson]] as Gerald Arthur Cooper
* [[Steve Huison]] as Lomper
* [[Paul Barber (actor)|Paul Barber]] as Barrington "Horse" Mitchell
* [[Hugo Speer]] as Guy
* William Snape as Nathan Schofield
* [[Lesley Sharp]] as Jean Horsfall
* [[Emily Woof]] as Mandy
* Deirdre Costello as Linda Cooper
* Paul Butterworth as Barry
* [[Dave Hill (actor)|Dave Hill]] as Alan
* [[Bruce Jones (actor)|Bruce Jones]] as Reg
* Andrew Livingston as Terry
* Vinny Dhillon as Sharon
* [[Kate Rutter]] as Dole Clerk
{{div col end}}

==Production==
[[Film4 Productions|Channel 4 Films]] paid for the screenplay to be written but then declined to invest any equity in the film. [[Fox Searchlight]] ended up financing it for almost £3&nbsp;million.<ref name="theguardian.com">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/mar/26/how-we-made-the-full-monty-bums |title=How we made The Full Monty|date=26 March 2019|newspaper=The Guardian|accessdate=1 October 2021}}</ref>

The famous "[[Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song)|Hot Stuff]]" scene, in which the characters dance in the queue at the [[Jobcentre]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nightingale |first1=Laura |title=Go all the way and leave your hat at home for The Full Monty in Woking |url=https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/gary-lucy-goes-way-full-8569308 |access-date=6 November 2018 |work=getsurrey |date=3 February 2015}}</ref> was originally going to be cut from the final production as it was considered "too unrealistic".<ref>{{cite web |date=11 August 2017 |title=13 Naked Truths About The Full Monty |url=http://mentalfloss.com/article/503508/13-naked-truths-about-‘-full-monty’ |access-date=7 February 2019 |website=Mental Floss}}</ref>

The cast allegedly agreed that all six of them would really do the "full monty" strip at the end in front of 50 extras, provided they had to do only one take.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hartl |first=John |date=4 September 1997 |title='Full Monty' Director Goes For Character-Driven Humor |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-09-04-9709040258-story.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209124521/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-09-04-9709040258-story.html |archive-date=9 February 2019 |access-date=7 February 2019 |website=Chicago Tribune}}</ref> Hugo Speer told ''[[The Guardian]]'' in 2019: "The climactic scene was nuts. It was in a very cold working men's club, starting at about midday. The makeup and costume girls knew how we were feeling, so they were thrusting glasses of alcohol into our hands between takes. The extras had smuggled in booze, too. They weren't aware we were going to go all the way – that was a bit of smarts on the producers' part, so it was a completely natural reaction they got at the end."<ref name="theguardian.com"/>

The production and shooting was also said to be very challenging, with Robert Carlyle saying: "''The Full Monty'' was a tough shoot, it really really was. Horrible."<ref>{{cite web|title=Robert Carlyle was not expecting The Full Monty to be a hit – The Graham Norton Show 2017 – BBC One| website=[[YouTube]] | date=27 January 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwYzhVHO-Tc| archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211118/DwYzhVHO-Tc| archive-date=18 November 2021 | url-status=live|access-date=9 January 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Locations===
The film was shot entirely on location in and around Sheffield in April 1996, except for a couple of locations in [[Shirebrook]], Derbyshire.<ref>{{cite web|title=Where was 'The Full Monty' filmed?|url=http://www.british-film-locations.com/The-Full-Monty-1997|website=British Film Locations|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="theguardian.com"/>

===''The Reel Monty''===
The opening sequence of the Sheffield promotion film from 1972 is taken from ''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 £400, which they accepted. In 2008, ''City on the Move'' was released on DVD under the new name ''The Reel Monty''.<ref>{{cite news |date=8 October 2008 |title=See Sheffield reel time in 1969 – VIDEO |work=Sheffield Star |url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/video/See-Sheffield-reel-time-in.4568255.jp |url-status=dead |access-date=11 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202053114/http://www.thestar.co.uk/video/See-Sheffield-reel-time-in.4568255.jp |archive-date=2 December 2008}}</ref>

===Language===
{{Main|Full monty (phrase)}}
The film features frequent use of British [[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&nbsp;— as Horse says, "No one said anything to me about the full monty!" The phrase, whose origin is obscure (a possible meaning relates to a full 3-piece suit by the then popular high street tailor Montague Burton), 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:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/content/articles/2005/08/16/voices_sywords_feature.shtml |title=Putting SY on the wordmap |publisher= BBC |date=22 August 2005}} {{dubious|reason=Examples of Jennel at source are only found in user contributed comments below the article; not a reliable source.|date=November 2014}}</ref> 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==

===Critical reception===
The film surprised critics when it was first released, earning near-universal acclaim, and it went on to be nominated for the [[Academy Award for Best Picture]].

Writing in ''[[Time Out New York]]'' regarding the implications of the film [[Andrew Johnston (critic)|Andrew Johnston]] stated: "''Monty'' is much less ribald than it sounds. The funniest moments are frequently the most subtle, like when five of the strippers, standing in the dole line, find themselves unable to resist dancing in place when Donna Summers's "Hot Stuff" comes on the radio. There's surprisingly little raunch, in part because the film can't stop thinking of women as enemies of a sort (at least ''Monty'' is less offensive than ''[[Brassed Off]]'' in that department). And refreshingly, its definition of male bonding is broad enough to let two of the lads find love in each other's arms."<ref>{{cite journal|last=Johnston|first=Andrew|date=14 August 1997|title=The Full Monty|journal=Time Out New York}}</ref>

Review aggregate [[Rotten Tomatoes]] retrospectively reports that 96% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 55 reviews, with an average score of 7.50/10. The consensus reads, "Cheeky and infectiously good-natured, ''The Full Monty'' bares its big beating heart with a sly dose of ribald comedy."<ref>{{Rotten Tomatoes|full_monty|The Full Monty}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], which assesses films with a score out of 100, the film has a score of 75 based on 31 critics' reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{Metacritic film|title=The Full Monty}}</ref>

===Box office===
''The Full Monty'' opened on six screens in the United States on 13 August 1997 and grossed $244,375 in its first five days, with a per-screen average in its opening weekend of $29,430; the highest for a film that weekend.<ref name="Mojo" /> The film expanded to 10 screens the following weekend and then 36 screens for the Labor Day weekend (29 August – 1 September) where it remained the film with the highest per-screen average gross ($25,344) and grossed a total of $1.7&nbsp;million in its first 20 days.<ref name="Mojo" /><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=12 September 1997|page=29|title=Monty ups the ante|last=Goodridge|first=Mike}}</ref> When the film was released in the [[United Kingdom]] on 29 August 1997 on 224 screens, it grossed £1,593,928 in its first 3 days, ranking second at the UK box office behind ''[[Men in Black (1997 film)|Men in Black]]'', which grossed £1.7&nbsp;million in its fifth week of release from almost twice the number of screens (411).<ref>{{cite magazine|title=UK Top 15|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=5 September 1997|page=30|quote=$2,570,852; $1=£0.620}}</ref> However, it beat ''Men in Black'' for the week and took the weekend crown the following weekend and remained [[List of 1997 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom|number one at the UK box office]] for the next nine weeks, the longest a film had remained at number one in the UK.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=8 September 1997|title=International box office|page=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=UK Top 15|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=12 September 1997|page=30}}</ref><ref name=wooed>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=14 November 1997|page=27|title=Wooed into the top spot|last=Scott|first=Mary}}</ref> It became the highest-grossing British film of all time in its ninth week of release, surpassing ''[[Four Weddings and a Funeral]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=31 October 1997|page=27|title=Stripped by Full Monty|last=Scott|first=Mary}}</ref> It was displaced as the weekend number one by ''[[Face/Off]]'' but remained the highest grosser for the week and returned to spend the next two weekends back at number one.<ref name=wooed/><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=17 November 1997|title=International box office|page=14}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=UK Top 15|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=28 November 1997|page=38}}</ref> It was the highest-grossing film in the UK for thirteen consecutive weeks and eleven weekends.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=1 December 1997|title=International box office|page=12}}</ref> In the US, it expanded to 387&nbsp;screens on 12 September and grossed $2.9&nbsp;million for the weekend to finish in fifth place at the box office. It expanded further to 650&nbsp;screens the following weekend where it retained its fifth place.<ref name="Mojo" />

It also opened at [[List of 1997 box office number-one films in Australia|number one in Australia]] where it remained for five weeks. In France, it opened at the same time as ''[[The Lost World: Jurassic Park]]'' and recorded a per screen average of $16,699 compared to the former's $19,133, finishing in third place for the week.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=3 November 1997|title='Monty' still taking on all comers o'seas|page=12|last=Woods|first=Mark}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=10 November 1997|title=Euro entries outdo H'wood newcomers|page=7|last=Woods|first=Mark}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=24 November 1997|title='Alien' scares up big B.O. o'seas|page=13|last=Groves|first=Don}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=1 December 1997|title=Trio boosts end-of-season B.O.|page=12|last=Groves|first=Don}}</ref> On 27 January 1998, it surpassed ''[[Jurassic Park (film)|Jurassic Park]]'' to become the [[List of highest-grossing films in the United Kingdom|highest-grossing film in the UK]] and finished with a gross of £52.2&nbsp;million ($85&nbsp;million).<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Monumental Monty|magazine=[[Screen International]]|date=30 January 1998|page=27|last=Scott|first=Mary}}</ref><ref name="BFI 2013">{{cite book |title=BFI Statistical Yearbook |year=2013 |edition=2012 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |location=London |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2013.pdf |pages=[http://www.emagcloud.com/incorporatedesign/BFI_Statisitical_Yearbook_2013_Digital02/pubData/source/BFI%20Statisitical%20Yearbook%202013%20Digital.pdf#page=22 22] & [http://www.emagcloud.com/incorporatedesign/BFI_Statisitical_Yearbook_2013_Digital02/pubData/source/BFI%20Statisitical%20Yearbook%202013%20Digital.pdf#page=32 32] |access-date=8 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228060414/http://www.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/downloads/bfi-statistical-yearbook-2013.pdf |archive-date=28 December 2013 |url-status=live  }}</ref><ref name="Mojo" /> In the United States and Canada it finished its run with a gross of $46&nbsp;million. It grossed $127&nbsp;million in other international markets for a worldwide gross of $258&nbsp;million.<ref name="Mojo" />

===Accolades and recognition===
''The Full Monty'' won the [[BAFTA Award for Best Film]] in 1997, beating presumed frontrunners ''Titanic'' and ''[[L.A. Confidential (film)|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 Award]]s: [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]], [[Academy Award for Best Original Score|Best Original Score]] and [[Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay|Best Original Screenplay]].

In 1997, the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars went to that year's big winner, ''Titanic'' and its director [[James Cameron]], and the Best Original Screenplay Oscar went to [[Ben Affleck]] and [[Matt Damon]] for ''[[Good Will Hunting]]''. At this time the [[Academy Award for Best Original Score]] was split up into two categories: Dramatic and Musical or Comedy. The Dramatic score award went to ''[[Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic]]'' and [[Anne Dudley]] won the Oscar for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for ''The Full Monty''. The film was also nominated for the prestigious [[Grand Prix (Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics)|Grand Prix]] of the [[Belgian Syndicate of Cinema Critics]].

In 1999, it was ranked #25 on the [[BFI Top 100 British films]] list. In 2000, readers of ''[[Total Film]]'' magazine voted ''The Full Monty'' the 49th greatest comedy film of all time. By that year it earned an estimated £194&nbsp;million at the box office worldwide.<ref name="icon">Alexander Walker, ''Icons in the Fire: The Rise and Fall of Practically Everyone in the British Film Industry 1984–2000'', Orion Books, 2005 p.&nbsp;280</ref>

===Controversy===
[[New Zealand]] playwrights [[Anthony McCarten]] and [[Stephen Sinclair]] filed a £180&nbsp;million [[lawsuit]] against the producers of ''The Full Monty'' in 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/37368-Full-Monty-Producers-Sued-by-2-New-Zealand-Playwrights |title=Full Monty Producers Sued by 2 New Zealand Playwrights |work=[[Playbill]] |date=3 March 1998 |access-date=22 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323003616/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/37368-Full-Monty-Producers-Sued-by-2-New-Zealand-Playwrights |archive-date=23 March 2014 }}</ref> They claim that the film blatantly infringed on their play, ''[[Ladies Night (play)|Ladies Night]]'', which toured both Britain and New Zealand.<ref>{{cite news |date=4 March 1998 |title=Writers sue over The Full Monty |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/61929.stm |access-date= |website=BBC News}}</ref><ref>'Ladies' fight.', Campbell, Gordon. ''[[New Zealand Listener]]'' pp. 25–26; 26 September 1998.</ref> Anthony McCarten and Stephen Sinclair created a website containing their play in response to statements from the producers of ''The Full Monty'' that claimed the two productions were not alike. The underlying rights were attributed to co-producer, Paul Bucknor, and the lawsuit was settled out of court; as part of the agreement, the website containing ''Ladies Night'' was shut down.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wild Realm Film Reviews: Hollywood Plagiarism |url=http://www.weirdwildrealm.com/hollywoodplagiarism.html |access-date=29 October 2022 |website=www.weirdwildrealm.com}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
[[Anne Dudley]]'s Oscar for Best Score was a surprise, and some critics felt undeserved, inasmuch as the award is for original music and most of the film's memorable moments had jukebox favourites playing.<ref name="Bona2002">{{cite book|last=Bona|first=Damien|title=Inside Oscar 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7H9ZUgHROt8C&pg=PT306|access-date=27 November 2014|date=6 February 2002|publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=9780345448002|page=306|quote=the Oscar to Anne Dudley for ''The Full Monty'' ... was somewhat surprising, since the music most remembered from the film was ... disco hits"}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author-link=James Berardinelli |url=http://www.reelviews.net/comment/032398.html |title=Commentary: A "Live" Look at the Oscars |last=Berardinelli |first=James |date=23 March 1998 |quote=To be quite frank, I can't remember anything about the original score of the film. All I remember are the pop songs. |access-date=28 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205110113/http://www.reelviews.net/comment/032398.html |archive-date=5 December 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/specials/oscars/news-scores.html|title=When Will Oscar Really Know the Score?|last=Burr|first=Ty|date=1 March 1998|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=27 November 2014}}</ref> Dudley composed "about 20 minutes' worth of music" for the film.<ref name="ind1153273">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/people-early-to-bed-for-anne-and-oscar-1153273.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220618/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/people-early-to-bed-for-anne-and-oscar-1153273.html |archive-date=18 June 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=People: Early to bed for Anne and Oscar|last=Fontaine|first=Rex|date=29 March 1998|work=[[The Independent on Sunday]]|access-date=27 November 2014}}</ref> Bob Strauss called the Oscar "well-deserved",<ref>{{cite news |last=Strauss |first=Bob |date=24 March 1998 |title=Analysis: Oscars listing to mainstream |work=Los Angeles Daily News |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ANALYSIS%3A+OSCARS+LISTING+TO+MAINSTREAM.-a083816326 |url-status=dead |access-date=27 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141204161406/http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ANALYSIS%3A+OSCARS+LISTING+TO+MAINSTREAM.-a083816326 |archive-date=4 December 2014 |via=[[The Free Library]]}}</ref> while Pauline Reay felt Dudley's underscore complemented the familiar hits.<ref name="Reay2004">{{cite book|last=Reay|first=Pauline|title=Music in Film: Soundtracks and Synergy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sAZ8auEjIoAC&pg=PA105|access-date=27 November 2014|year=2004|publisher=Wallflower Press|isbn=9781903364659|page=105}}</ref> Dudley described her score to [[Steven Poole]]:<ref>{{cite web |date=10 April 1998 |title=Fingers and thumbs: With the Art of Noise's Anne Dudley |url=http://stevenpoole.net/articles/fingers-and-thumbs |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210307194725/http://stevenpoole.net/articles/fingers-and-thumbs/ |archive-date=7 March 2021 |access-date=28 November 2014 |website=StevenPoole.net}}</ref>
:It was this conglomeration of sounds—[[baritone sax]], [[acoustic guitar]], [[harmonica]] [...] The reasoning was that all these six men are different, they come from different backgrounds, but in the final scene it all works. The idea was that the instruments should do that as well—they all come from different places but they actually gel...

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The album '''''The Full Monty: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack''''' includes two original tracks by Dudley plus the pop hits, including a cover by [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] of "[[You Can Leave Your Hat On]]" commissioned and produced by Dudley, who had collaborated with Jones on [[Kiss (Prince song)#Tom Jones|a 1988 cover of "Kiss"]].<ref name="ind1153273"/><ref name="Dyja2010">{{cite book|last=Dyja|first=Eddie|title=Studying British Cinema, the 1990s|year=2010|publisher=Columbia University Press|quote=Tom Jones ... recorded it especially for the film |isbn=9781906733025|page=106}}</ref>

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# "The Zodiac" – [[David Lindup]] (3:06)
# "[[You Sexy Thing]]" – [[Hot Chocolate]] (4:03)
# "[[You Can Leave Your Hat On]]" – [[Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones]] (4:26)
# "[[Moving on Up (M People song)|Moving on Up]]" – [[M People]] (5:29)
# "[[Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)]]" – [[Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel]] (3:59)
# "The Full Monty" – [[Anne Dudley]] (3:04)
# "The Lunchbox Has Landed" – Anne Dudley (2:14)
# "[[Land of a Thousand Dances]]" – [[Wilson Pickett]] (2:24)
# "[[Rock and Roll (Gary Glitter song)|Rock & Roll, Pt. 2]]" – [[Gary Glitter]] (3:02)
# "[[Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song)|Hot Stuff]]" – [[Donna Summer]] (3:49)
# "[[We Are Family (song)|We Are Family]]" – [[Sister Sledge]] (3:35)
# "[[Flashdance... What a Feeling]]" – [[Irene Cara]] (3:49)
# "[[The Stripper]]" – [[Joe Loss|Joe Loss & His Orchestra]] (2:11)

===Certifications===
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==Adaptations==
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In 1998, the film was novelized by the British writer [[Wendy Holden (author, born 1961)|Wendy Holden]].<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1017/CCOL0521849624.016 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |chapter=From screen to text: novelization, the hidden continent |last=Baetens |first=Jan |title=The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen |year=2007 |pages=226–238 |isbn=9780521849623 |chapter-url=https://lirias.kuleuven.be/1558703?limo=0}}</ref>

The film was adapted into a 2000 [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] [[Musical theatre|musical]] of the same name; the characters and setting were [[United States|Americanized]]. The musical ran in the [[West End theatre|West End]] at the [[Prince of Wales Theatre]] in 2002.

It was also adapted into a stage play by the original screenwriter [[Simon Beaufoy]], which opened at the [[Sheffield Lyceum|Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield]] on 2 February 2013, directed by [[Sheffield Theatres]] artistic director [[Daniel Evans (actor)|Daniel Evans]], before embarking on a national tour. It opened in the [[West End theatre|West End]] at the [[Noël Coward Theatre]] on 25 February 2014.

However, despite positive reviews, the show closed on 29 March, rather than the planned 14 June, after a run of just over a month.<ref>{{cite news |date=17 March 2014 |title=The Full Monty's West End run to end early |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-26610142 |website=BBC News}}</ref> A Portuguese-language version was adapted for theatrical performance in Brazil by Brazilian journalist Artur Xexéo. This version of the play was directed by Tadeu Aguiar, and debuted in Brazil on 6 October 2015.<ref>{{cite web |date=25 September 2015 |title='Ou tudo ou nada' aborda crise com humor no Teatro Popular |url=http://oglobo.globo.com/rio/bairros/ou-tudo-ou-nada-aborda-crise-com-humor-no-teatro-popular-17604714 |website=oblogo.globo.com |language=pt}}</ref>

In 2017, twenty years after the film's release, an ITV Special titled ''[[The Real Full Monty]]'' was announced in order to raise awareness of [[prostate cancer]] and [[testicular cancer]].<ref>{{cite web |date=15 June 2017 |title=Meet the celebrities stripping off for The Real Full Monty |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/meet-the-celebrities-stripping-off-for-the-real-full-monty/ |website=Radio Times}}</ref> It aired on 15 June 2017 and starred [[Alexander Armstrong]], [[Ashley Banjo]], [[Danny John-Jules]], [[Dominic Littlewood]], [[Elliott Wright]], [[Harry Judd]], [[Mark Foster (swimmer)|Mark Foster]], [[Matthew Wolfenden]] and [[Wayne Sleep]]. The show has returned each year since: ''The Real Full Monty'' and ''The Real Full Monty: Ladies' Night'' (2018),<ref>{{cite web |date=29 March 2018 |title=Meet the male celebrities stripping off for The Real Full Monty Live 2018 |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/meet-the-male-celebrities-stripping-off-for-the-real-full-monty-live-2018/ |website=Radio Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=20 March 2018 |title=Celebrity cast revealed for The Real Full Monty |url=https://planetradio.co.uk/heat/entertainment/television/the-real-full-monty-celebrity-cast-2018/ |website=planetradio.co.uk}}</ref> ''The All New Monty: Who Bares Wins'' (2019),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/the-all-new-monty-2019-cast-men-women-line-up-who-bares-wins-full-257769|title=The All New Monty 2019 cast: Here's who is stripping off|date=13 February 2019|website=inews.co.uk}}</ref> ''The Real Full Monty on Ice'' (2020),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/real-full-monty-ice-cast-19456626|title=The Real Full Monty On Ice 2020 cast and start time|first=Megan|last=Nisbet|date=14 December 2020|website=WalesOnline}}</ref> ''Strictly The Real Full Monty'' (2021).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/tv/strictly-real-full-monty-2021-22446030|title=Strictly The Real Full Monty 2021 cast, date and time|first=Lottie|last=Gibbons|date=13 December 2021|website=Liverpool Echo}}</ref> Banjo has starred in every episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10935338/|title=The Real Full Monty|date=15 June 2017|via=IMDb}}</ref> A version of ''The Real Full Monty'' has been produced for Australian audiences, with the participants being Australian celebrities.

=== Television series ===
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In 2023, [[FX on Hulu]] and [[Disney+]] released a limited television series based on the film. The series is produced by [[Searchlight Television]], [[FX Productions|FXP]] and Little Island Productions. Simon Beaufoy is credited as creator, writer and executive producer. The original cast members, including Carlyle, Wilkinson, and Addy, reprised their roles.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Han |first1=Angie |title='The Full Monty' Review: FX/Hulu Sequel Is Flawed But Full of Unassuming Charm |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/the-full-monty-review-fx-hulu-1235509776/ |website=The Hollywood Reporter |access-date=15 June 2023 |date=13 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=''The Full Monty'': Disney+ Revives 1997 BAFTA-Winning Film As Limited TV Series; Original Cast Including Robert Carlyle & Tom Wilkinson To Return|url=https://deadline.com/2022/03/disney-revives-full-monty-robert-carlyle-1234987731/|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|last=Goldbart|first=Max|date=28 March 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=''The Full Monty'' cast reprise original roles for Disney Plus series|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a39558280/the-full-monty-tv-series-disney-plus/|work=[[Digital Spy]]|last=Houghton|first=Rianne|date=28 March 2022}}</ref> On 2 July 2022, Speer was removed from the series due to inappropriate conduct claims.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/02/hugo-speer-sacked-from-full-monty-reboot-for-inappropriate-conduct|title=Hugo Speer sacked from Full Monty reboot over 'inappropriate conduct' claims|website=The Guardian|last=Bryant|first=Miranda|date=2 July 2022|access-date=2 July 2022}}</ref> The series premiered on 14 June 2023.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Full Monty series gets first trailer for Disney+ show|url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a43861231/full-monty-show-trailer-disney/|website=[[Digital Spy]]|first=Iona|last=Rowan|date=11 May 2023}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[BFI Top 100 British films]]
* ''[[Brassed Off]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Billy Elliot]]'' (2000)
* [[Pride (2014 film)|''Pride'']] (2014)

==References==
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==External links==
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