Jun 26th
The Full Monty**
(GB/US 1997)
Unemployed Sheffield steelworkers try to raise funds and morale by performing a male striptease.
The plot of this highly successful British comedy owes a good deal (unintentionally or otherwise) to a TV film The Bare Necessities, given skilful publicity and backing for American audiences to make it an international smash hit - thanks of course to its more commercial lurid aspects. Thankfully, it still also remains a touching and poignant sentimental drama of the times, with vague echoes of Ealing but much grittier, and efficiently made with lots of funny moments.
Written by: Simon Beaufoy.
Producer: Uberto Pasolini.
Director: Peter Cattaneo.
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Emily Woof, Lesley Sharp, Steve Huison, Hugo Speer, Paul Barber, William Snape.
Photography: John de Borman.
Music: Anne Dudley, plus various hit songs.
The Full Monty**
(GB/US 1997)
Unemployed Sheffield steelworkers try to raise funds and morale by performing a male striptease.
The plot of this highly successful British comedy owes a good deal (unintentionally or otherwise) to a TV film The Bare Necessities, given skilful publicity and backing for American audiences to make it an international smash hit - thanks of course to its more commercial lurid aspects. Thankfully, it still also remains a touching and poignant sentimental drama of the times, with vague echoes of Ealing but much grittier, and efficiently made with lots of funny moments.
Written by: Simon Beaufoy.
Producer: Uberto Pasolini.
Director: Peter Cattaneo.
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy, Emily Woof, Lesley Sharp, Steve Huison, Hugo Speer, Paul Barber, William Snape.
Photography: John de Borman.
Music: Anne Dudley, plus various hit songs.
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