Played by: Robert Carlyle
Finding it increasingly difficult to make child-support payments to his ex-wife and much-loved young son, unemployed steel worker Gaz hatches an audacious plan to form a troupe of male dancers and get booked in a local club popular with the ladies. What his group of financially distressed mates lack in taut musculature and flashy moves, they more than make up for in dorky enthusiasm and a willingness to strip down past their things and show the “full monty.” The filmmakers have to navigate a storyline that balances on a thin edge between creepy and cloying. But it all works (earning big bucks, admiring reviews and four Oscar noms), mostly in part to the easy-going charms of Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Tom Wilkinson, and the three other gifted actors who forever changed the way we listen to Tom Jones’ “You Can Leave Your Hat On.”
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