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Full Monty, The
20th Century Fox
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language and some nudity
Starring
Robert Carlyle,
Mark Addy,
William Snape,
Steve Huison,
Tom Wilkinson,
and
Paul Barber
After their steel factory shuts down in Sheffield, a desperate group of men looking for work where there is none, form an exotic made dance troupe and are prepared to offer what Chippendale's doesn't...the full monty or total nudity.
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Simon Beaufoy
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Peter Cattaneo
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: November 2, 1999
Video: March 17, 1998
Theatrical: August 13, 1997
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| RUNNING TIME: |
91 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
UK |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
90
Variety
Derek Elley
Bright and sassy, The Full Monty is a treat.
90
Salon.com
Laura Miller
So seamlessly buoyant and enjoyable that it's easy to miss how carefully and sensitively it's made.
88
San Francisco Examiner
G. Allen Johnson
There isn't a whole lot of fancy subplotting, just a potpourri of funny and engaging characters.
88
Chicago Tribune
Mark Caro
Takes a premise that seems ripe for broad, vulgar joking and turns it into a sly, even subtle, comedy.
88
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
Such pure, naked joy is utterly contagious.
80
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
This wonderful 1997 comedy--about an unlikely group of men who are determined to strip to music rather than get day jobs--is genuinely effective at inverting gender stereotypes and other assumptions, and it's not the slightest bit heavy-handed.
80
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
If you don't go expecting the depth and subtlety of a Mike Leigh working-class film, The Full Monty can be heart-warming fun with more serious undertones than you might have expected. [13 August 1997, Calendar, p.F-5]
80
Time
Richard Schickel
To make an unembarrassing movie about embarrassment is definitely an eye-opening achievement.
80
The New York Times
Alan Riding
Inevitably, the film has echoes of "Brassed Off," another recent British export. The Full Monty is less sentimental and arguably funnier.
80
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Along with witty, appropriately rough-hewn repartee and genuine poignancy, writer Simon Beaufoy manages to sustain suspense to the last gyration.
80
Film.com
John Hartl
Rowdy, funny, surprisingly sweet.
80
Film.com
Alice Smith
A very funny film that never sacrifices the lives of its characters to the needs of its story.
80
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
A bully good romp, and it thumbs its nose at the bloated blockbusters towering over it at the multiplexes by ending the moment it arrives at its raucous, richly deserved climax.
80
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
A winning mix of humor and poignant character examination, and a satisfying film.
80
Newsweek
Andrea C. Basora
The portraits are spare but right on target. And the film keeps you laughing even as you feel the pain of the characters.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Screenwriter Simon Beaufoy has created full characters as vulnerable in their personal lives as in their work.
75
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The comic moments in this ingratiating bit of malarkey from director Peter Cattaneo and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy (both TV trained, both making their feature debuts) are winning.
75
Baltimore Sun
Michael Ollove
Ceaselessly amiable, moving whimsically toward an ending that, while predictable, is a rousing, unfettered joy.
75
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Simple, joyful and downright innocent movie.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The director, Peter Cattaneo, takes material that could would be at home in a sex comedy, and gives it gravity because of the desperation of the characters; we glimpse the home life of these men, who have literally been put on the shelf, and we see the wound to their pride.
75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Peter Cattaneo's comedy has brash and boisterous scenes, but its message about the humiliations of unemployment is serious and insightful, and applies far beyond the English setting of this story.
75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Originality may be at a premium here, but The Full Monty offers plenty of opportunities for laughter and genial smiles.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
A laugh and a half, a genial crowd-pleaser.
70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Beaufoy and Cattaneo handle this potentially racy material with an engaging balance of good taste and outright slapstick.
70
Slate
David Edelstein
The laughs are fuller when they're rooted in authentic desperation, and the premise is yeasty enough to keep the film from sinking into facile hopelessness.
70
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Genuinely touching.
70
Film.com
Tom Keogh
Its own, tough-minded antidote to the grab-the-brass-ring whimsy of its premise.
67
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
A nearly perfect piffle in an age when hardly any movie seems to know how to play the light notes well.
67
Austin Chronicle
Russell Smith
Feel-good comedy with none of the pejorative hints of innocuous blandness that term so often implies.
60
TNT RoughCut
Laurence Lerman
While slight and fairly unassuming considering its subject, the cast is uniformly fine.
50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
An enjoyable, ultimately inconsequential crowd-pleaser.
 The average user rating for this movie is 7.8 (out of 10) based on 6 User Votes
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