The Full Monty is the story of six men,
desperately needing money. It happes in the English city of Sheffield,
suffering a great unemployment wave due to the fall of several
steel mills.
Gaz and Dave, two steelworkers, take the adventure of being
strippers, having the idea when the Chippendales come to their city,
watching the big group of women waiting to see them.
To do this mad idea they get the support of Gerald, that was their
former, and Lomper, another unemployed steelworker at the very edge
of suicide. Doing a sort of casting they get another two strippers,
Horse and Guy, and begin to rehearse.
Problems begin to come: Gaz needs money to make the show possible
and to pay his ex-wife her pension; Dave becomes impotent and very
acomplexed for being overweight and unemployed; Gerald's wife discovers
that he has lost his job, six months later...
In the movie there are several classic disco songs, like "You sexy
thing" from Hot Chocolate, "Hot stuff" by Donna Summer, "Moving on up"
by M People as well as a '95 Remix of "Flashdance... What a feeling" by
Irene Cara. And, for the finale scene, the show, we can hear "You can
leave your hat on" performed by Tom Jones.
The score comes composed by Anne Dudley, only a couple of orchestral
tracks effective and pretty good. You can see more soundtrack details
here.
THE CHARACTERS
 | Gaz (Robert Carlyle). Who has the "brilliant" idea of stripping. While surviving the best he can, passing the days in the unemployment office, fights for the custody of his son Nathan. |
 | Dave (Mark Addy). Gaz's best friend, he is in a low self esteem period because don't having a job and his impotence. |
 | Gerald (Tom Wilkinson). He was Dave's jefe in the steel mill. Now unemployed since six months ago, doesn't dare to tell this to his wife. While he struggles to find another work, she is happy spending with credit cards. |
 | Horse (Paul Barber). 50sh man, averaged dancer, able to do almost whatever to get some money. Finally I don't understand why the f*ck they call him 'Horse'. |
 | Lomper (Steve Huison). Pale, boner and whiter, finds himself as desolated as the main strippers and for that reason joins them in the strip adventure, not very convinced. |
 | Guy (Hugo Speer). He doesn't sing. He doesn't dance. He doesn't anything at all, but has some good reason to do striptease. |
 | Nathan (William Snape). Son of Gaz, although doesn't have a star part, he is almost all the time on screen. |