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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 and Hugo Speer. The screenplay was written by Simon Beaufoy. The film is set in Sheffield in the North of England during the 1990s, and tells the story of six unemployed men, four ...
The Full Monty is written by Simon Beaufoy [3] and marked his first attempt at writing for theatre. [4] It is based on his own screenplay [ 5 ] for the 1997 film of the same name . [ 6 ] The film itself was made on a budget of £3 million and was a sleeper hit , [ 7 ] earning over £160 million in global box office receipts becoming the highest-grossing film in the UK at the time. [ 8 ]
- Wendy Holden, Simon Beaufoy, Anne Collins
- 1997
Aug 24, 2022 · When it was released 25 years ago, the male stripper comedy-drama ‘The Full Monty’ became a British film phenomenon. Rolling Stone UK speaks to the people behind the film to learn its uncensored history. The cast of The Full Monty was nervous, with good reason. Now halfway through the film’s shoot, the time had finally come for them to ...
- It Got Off to A Rough start.
- The Movie’S Title Confused Hollywood Executives.
- Some American Moviegoers Had Trouble with The British Slang, too.
- Nicholas Lyndhurst Was The First Choice to Play “Gaz.”
- Robert Carlyle Hated Making The Movie.
- It Almost Went Straight to Video.
- The “Hot Stuff” Scene Was Almost Cut.
- Yes, The Actors Really Did Take It All off.
- Alcohol Played A role.
- The Film Ended Up Being Too Short.
Though The Full Monty eventually became a massive hit, you wouldn’t have known it from the many roadblocks the film’s producers faced when attempting to get the project off the ground. Channel 4 Films initially showed interest in the film and invested in the script’s development. But once completed, they believed the final draft was too close to Br...
After getting a pass from Channel 4, the film’s makers attempted to pitch The Full Monty to a number of Hollywood studios—many of whom were totally perplexed by the title. Though the movie popularized the phrase around the world, few people knew what it meant before 1997. According to the film’s screenwriter, Simon Beaufoy, several American studio ...
Though Beaufoy knew that The Full Monty had universal appeal, he heard from more than one American moviegoer that they couldn’t understand a lot of what was being said. “When we first showed it at the Sundance Film Festival,” Beaufoy told Metro, “there were people coming out going: ‘God, I loved that. I didn’t understand a word they were saying but...
Nicholas Lyndhurst, who is perhaps best known for his work in Going Straight, Only Fools and Horses, and Goodnight Sweetheart, was the first choice for the role of Gaz, which eventually went to Robert Carlyle. For Lyndhurst, passing on The Full Montywas a no-brainer: "I was in rehearsal in Northampton, on a bleak day, and my agent phoned,” Lyndhurs...
Eventually, Robert Carlyle—fresh off a starring part in Trainspotting—took on the role of Gaz, though he wasn’t thrilled about it. In the 20 years since the film’s release, Carlyle has shared that he did not enjoy making the film, and was pretty certain that it was going to bomb at the box office. “I thought it was a load of f***ing pish,” Carlyle ...
With so little confidence in the project coming from various angles, and a first cut that was reportedly pretty unimpressive, 20th Century Fox thought that cutting their losses and releasing the film straight to video might be the best option. “It was a tough shoot,” Carlyle said. “It was so horrible that when the people [at] Fox Searchlight, who'd...
One of the film’s most memorable scenes is when the guys are in line and Donna Summer’s “Hot Stuff” comes on the radio overhead. Without even thinking about it, they all quietly break into their choreographed moves to the song. According to a variety of sources, this scene came very close to ending up on the cutting room floor for being “too unreal...
Reluctant to put his cast through the torture of stripping down to nothing for take after take to shoot the film’s climactic striptease scene, Cattaneo promised his actors that it would be a one-take deal—an assurance that was ultimately what persuaded many of them to sign on for the film in the first place. And he delivered. "We took two days to d...
In order to help calm pre-stripping nerves on the set, Cattaneo decided that a little liquid courage might help in eliciting the most natural performances from his actors—so he made sure there was plenty of booze lying around. “They were half full of whiskey at that point [of shooting the final scene],” Cattaneo told the Chicago Tribune.“That was t...
After all the nips and tucks that were made to the earlier versions of the film, by the time the filmmakers had a cut that was working it ended up being too short. So, several months after filming had wrapped, the cast had to reassemble to shoot some additional footage. There was just one problem: Carlyle was already working on another movie and co...
Aug 29, 2017 · The Full Monty (1997) The Full Monty might be the unlikeliest runaway success story in British cinema history. Two decades on, this Sheffield-set tale of unemployed former steel workers turned amateur strippers remains a briskly paced, bittersweet, gently amusing watch.
Feb 14, 2024 · The Full Monty - The Play is celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the film on a major national tour (Image: ©elliekurttz 2023) The story has everything - humour, heart, a perfect pace, plus a huge ...
Feb 14, 2024 · With a truly lasting legacy and a wonderful cast, The Full Monty - The Play, by Simon Beaufoy, had a lot to live up to in order to come close to the much-loved film hit from 1997. And the stage version was indeed a great success, with laughter ringing out throughout the theatre at every turn. The story of a bunch of down on their luck Sheffield ...
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