The Full Monty (1997)
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Woof
Synopsis:
25 years on from Sheffield's boom era as an industrial town, six redundant steelworkers decide to present themselves as a male strip act.
Review:
Very much in the manner of Brassed-Off (before) and Little Voice (after) this more than either caught the imagination of the public in its depiction of how ordinary people gradually overcome various obstacles to mount a show-stopping finale. What happens to them afterwards when they have returned to their wretched daily lot matters here even less than the pratfalls of preparation and the buzz of a carefully edited performance. Soberingly enough, the film's phenomenal success probably had a good deal to do with its unambitiously populist subject matter, but the characters are sympathetically and realistically portrayed, there is a nice display of Northern humour and the soundtrack is a winner. In addition the screenplay tackles such topical modern concerns as the phasing out of masculinity in tandem with the empowerment of women, and the more commonplace problem of the loss of dignity and purpose through unemployment.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Woof
Synopsis:
25 years on from Sheffield's boom era as an industrial town, six redundant steelworkers decide to present themselves as a male strip act.
Review:
Very much in the manner of Brassed-Off (before) and Little Voice (after) this more than either caught the imagination of the public in its depiction of how ordinary people gradually overcome various obstacles to mount a show-stopping finale. What happens to them afterwards when they have returned to their wretched daily lot matters here even less than the pratfalls of preparation and the buzz of a carefully edited performance. Soberingly enough, the film's phenomenal success probably had a good deal to do with its unambitiously populist subject matter, but the characters are sympathetically and realistically portrayed, there is a nice display of Northern humour and the soundtrack is a winner. In addition the screenplay tackles such topical modern concerns as the phasing out of masculinity in tandem with the empowerment of women, and the more commonplace problem of the loss of dignity and purpose through unemployment.
Country: GB/US
Technical: col 91m
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Emily Woof
Synopsis:
25 years on from Sheffield's boom era as an industrial town, six redundant steelworkers decide to present themselves as a male strip act.
Review:
Very much in the manner of Brassed-Off (before) and Little Voice (after) this more than either caught the imagination of the public in its depiction of how ordinary people gradually overcome various obstacles to mount a show-stopping finale. What happens to them afterwards when they have returned to their wretched daily lot matters here even less than the pratfalls of preparation and the buzz of a carefully edited performance. Soberingly enough, the film's phenomenal success probably had a good deal to do with its unambitiously populist subject matter, but the characters are sympathetically and realistically portrayed, there is a nice display of Northern humour and the soundtrack is a winner. In addition the screenplay tackles such topical modern concerns as the phasing out of masculinity in tandem with the empowerment of women, and the more commonplace problem of the loss of dignity and purpose through unemployment.