The Full Monty film review

Review

Cast & crew

The Full Monty

(1997)

When the going gets tough, the tough get go-going, in director Peter Cattaneo's highly engaging, genuinely poignant and hilarious full-frontal comedy drama. Robert Carlyle plays a divorced father trying to maintain joint custody of his son, who forms a strip act along with a group of other unemployed Sheffield steelworkers. Well endowed with side-splitting laughter and brilliantly performed by the superb ensemble cast, this is about men's emotional shortcomings as much as their dirty dancing techniques, and is jam-packed with many wonderful moments — the would-be Chippendales of the North absent-mindedly gyrating to the radio in a dole queue is simply inspired. AJ

Contains swearing, nudity.

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Running time

87min

Country of origin

UK / US

Genre

Comedy Drama

Original language

English

Screenplay

Simon Beaufoy

Theatrical distributor

20th Century Fox Film Co. Ltd

UK cinema certificate




awards information


	Award	Category	Name	Nominee/Winner

	Academy 1997	Best Picture		Nominee
	Academy 1997	Directing	Peter Cattaneo	Nominee
	Academy 1997	Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)	Simon Beaufoy	Nominee
	BAFTA 1997	Best Film		Winner
	BAFTA 1997	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role	Robert Carlyle	Winner
	BAFTA 1997	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Mark Addy	Nominee
	BAFTA 1997	Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role	Tom Wilkinson	Winner
	BAFTA 1997	Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role	Lesley Sharp	Nominee
	BAFTA 1997	Best Screenplay (Original)	Simon Beaufoy	Nominee
	BAFTA 1997	The Alexander Korda Award for the Outstanding British Film of the Year		Nominee
	BAFTA 1997	The David Lean Award for the Best Achievement in Direction	Peter Cattaneo	Nominee