Audiences in America reacted to The Full Monty was firstly confusion as eventually they had to be given translation booklets in the cinema to understand the slang dialogue used by most of the characters in the film especially the main characters. The Full Monty was a box office hit being nominated for 4 Oscar’s and winning 1, being nominated for 11 BAFTA’s and winning 3 as well as 29 other awards. The Full Monty is also seventh of the top ten all time UK box office films and third of the all time UK films of the UK box office reaching a Box office gross of £52,232.058.
How the the working class male in represented in The Full Monty is mostly controlled by the institution. This was a British film that was also popular in the US. The Full Monty was released in 1997, directed by Peter Cattaneo and written by Simon Beautoy. The Full Monty was also surprisingly released in the USA on the 13th of August 1997 before the UK on the 29th of August which is rare as the separate release dates are so close and that a British made film was not the first to release most likely due to the American investment in the film.
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