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The Full Monty (1997, UK)
In director Peter Cattaneo's international buddy comedy
about six unemployed workers (mostly steel factory employees in the
town of Sheffield, South Yorkshire) becoming a male striptease act,
featuring "the full monty" (complete nudity):
- the inspiration to assemble a local stripper group
of men and put on a profitable show, after Sheffield resident Gary "Gaz" Schofield
(Robert Carlyle) (a divorced father who needed money for child
support for his son Nathan) saw a poster for a Chippendales' styled
act at a local club filled with women
- the attempted suicide scene of depressed ex-steel
mill security guard Lomper (Steve Huison) in his smoke-filled car,
before being recruited to be a member of the strip act being formed
- the famous short dole queue scene at a job center
- a feel-good moment in which unemployed working-class men heard
Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" on the radio and rhythmically
started moving - ultimately devising a get-rich-quick scheme for "Gaz" and
the entire group to make money
Job Center Line-Dancing
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- the stripper audition scene when anatomically well-endowed
but uncoordinated candidate Guy (Hugo Speer) dropped his pants
and Gaz observed: "Gentleman, the lunch box has landed"
Audition: Guy with Pants Down: "The Lunchbox
Has Landed"
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- their practice rehearsals when the clutzy would-be
dancers worked on their bump and grind act; and fat Dave Horsefall's
(Mark Addy) concerns about his out-of-shape figure: ("I mean,
what if next Friday, 400 women turn around and say: 'He's too fat,
he's too old, and he's a pigeon-chested little tosser. What happens
then, eh?...Bullocks to your personality. This is what they're
looking at, right?. And I tell you summat, mates. Anti-wrinkle
cream there may be, but anti-fat-bastard cream, there is none")
- in the finale, the actual amusing stripping scene
on-stage of the stripper group - dubbed
"Hot Metal: We Dare to Be Bare" - during a rendition of Tom
Jones' "You Can Leave Your Hat On", when they went "the
full monty" by pulling off their red g-string thongs (with hat
cover-up) to the delight of many screaming female fans - ending in
a freeze-frame
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The Inspiration: A One-Night Chippendale-like Act
Lomper's Attempted Suicide
Dave's Worries About the Performance
The Finale: The Full Monty Show
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