Peter Cattaneo directs Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy and Tom Wilkinson in this British comedy where six unemployed men in Sheffield decide to put on a stripshow for cash.

If you asked me in any other context what modern British cinema needs I’d tell you more populist movies about people who at least know what a Job Centre smells like. It is a tradition we have seemingly lost in the 21st century… yet there’s something about The Full Monty, a movie that over fulfilled on exactly that brief, that leaves me quite cold. The humour and the plotting feel rote and backwards. It just does nothing for me and I struggle to understand its continued popularity.

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Perfect Double Bill: Purely Belter (2000)

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