The Full Monty

[Caran]

Just come back from seeing this in Cheltenham. It was very good but for some reason they had set it in Buffalo USA. It was a bit off putting with the American accents. They changed one iconic scene in it. Where they had a toe tapping routine in the dole office they changed it to at one of the mothers funeral. Vey weird. But the energy and enthusiasm they put into it was brilliant, and they did go the full Monty!!

[jno]

how strange, making it American for a British audience.

I saw the film on a plane - the last scene, which they did with their backs to the cameras, actually had a black stripe reading THE FULL MONTY across the middle so you couldn't see their bottoms. Thank heavens my moral standards have not been corrupted!

[anneasquith]

was it worth staying to the end caran ? :)

[Caran]

Yes it was Anne. But at the start I wasn't too sure.

[mikey4444]

Can't see the point in resetting it in America Caran, however entertaining it was. The crux of the original show was that it was set at the time of the miners strike in Yorkshire, unless there was a similar strike in Buffalo, although I am not aware of that city having a coal industry.

[LyndaB]

I thought it was Brassed Off that was set against the miners strike. The film The Full Monty was about steelworkers - although there was a TV film on a few years before that with the same storyline (not that I'm accusing them of plagiarism, perish the though) but with miners - not steelworkers. I can't remember the name of it

[mikey4444]

Lynda...you are right...it was Billy Elliot that had the miners strike sequence...a senior moment for me it would seem !

[Prudie]

Even so mikey I agree, it was steelworkers and set in Sheffield and the whole film and its little subplots were so very 'English' I can't understand why anyone would fiddle with it by setting it elsewhere, presumably in a veiled attempt to put a fresh slant.