The Full Monty 20 years on

August 1997 saw the release of a film that would be the highest grossing film in the UK until the release of Titanic and won awards including an Oscar. Not bad for film which centred around a group of unemployed steel workers who decide to form a striptease troupe in order to earn some money. With hardly any star names with the sole exception of Robert Caryle whose character comes up with the idea of the men becoming strippers. For the most part The Full Monty could be a Ken Loach film if it were not for the striptease element. But the film's popularity can be found that it does not like a Loach (or any film of the same ilk) film to keeping preaching the same message throughout. Come the award season The Full Monty won a large number of awards. At the BAFTAs Caryle took Best Actor while Tom Wilkinson won Best Supporting Actor. From the Oscars it had 4 noms from which it claimed 1 when Anne Dudley won the Best Comedy Film score award. Perhaps the most notable win came when it won the Best Ensemble prize at the Screen Actors Guild awards beating Hollywood heavyweights Titanic, L. A. Confidential and Good Will Hunting. So what of the cast and crew? Caryle and Wilkinson continue to maintain their screen through various screen while Mark Addy in his sole season in Game of Thrones as Robert Barathon whose misunderstanding of a personal situation leads to the great upheaval that sets up the show's premise. Writer Simon Beaufoy has been working on various projects since, including winning an Oscar for Slumdog Millionaire. Peter Cattaneo the director has a much more subdued career though this Monday on BBC2, he is director of Diana and I a drama about how the death of Priceness Diana affects 4 characters. The popularity of The Full Monty still maintains a hold on the British public as it is being shown on Saturday night on BBC1 at a time when the showing of films outside of the big draws like Harry Potter is very rare. Just to goes to show how some films live on for a very long time.