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A great feel-good movie
Date of Review: Apr 23, 2000
Down in the dumps? Looking for a movie to help snap you out of that bad mood? Run down to your local video store and rent a copy of "The Full Monty"!
One of the best films to come out of Britain in many years, it has world-wide appeal. It's technically about a group of steel workers who decide to form a Chippendales-like group of male strippers when their plant is closed suddenly. It's really about much more than that, however. There's Gerald, the plant foreman, who can't get up the nerve to tell his wife that he's out of work suddenly after all this time, and lets her think he's still going to work when he's really going to the local Unemployment office with the other guys, who he used to supervise. There's Gaz, who's due to lose joint custody of his son, because he's fallen behind on child support. And there's Dave, who says he's "just a fat bastard", who's dealing with the issue of his weight and being supported by his wife.
Gaz and Dave get the idea for the dance troupe after breaking into a performance of the Chippendales at the neighborhood bar, and watching their women go crazy.
The movie ends with the guys doing "The Full Monty", stripping to Tom Jones' rendition of "You Can Leave Your Hat On", to the enthusiastic cheers of their families and friends. Originally going into it as a way to make easy money, the guys wind up learning a whole lot more about themselves, and who they really are.
