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• In November 1998, Prince Charles re-enacted the unemployment office scene on national television with some young members of the Prince's Trust.
  
  
• The title is a British slang phrase meaning "the whole thing." According to screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, US studio executives found it perplexing since nobody in the film is named Monty.
  
  
• The six leads did in fact perform a full-frontal strip-tease in front of 400 extras. Director Peter Cattaneo described it as "a one-take deal."
  
  
• The original cut of the film was too short, so three months after shooting ended, some more footage was shot, including the football/exercise montage. Robert Carlyle is not in that sequence; the actor was working on another project by then.
  
  
• They shot the scene with Horse in the telephone box three times: the first with an old woman outside overhearing the conversation, the second with a gang of girls on a night out overhearing, and when neither of them worked, they reshot it with no one listening.
  
  
• A number of American cinemas had special leaflets printed containing translations to some of the British slang left in the U.S version of the film so that audiences would be able to follow the dialog more easily.
  
  
• For the final sequence, the films choreographer was lying just in front of the stage, out of sight of the cameras, shouting out instructions to the actors.
  
  
• Danny Boyle was offered the chance to direct the movie, but turned it down because he wasn't impressed with the story.
  
  
• The film's working title was "Eggs, Beans and Chippendales".
  
  
• The film holds the record for the highest-grossing UK film in history. It grossed a total of $256.9 million (£160.5 million).
  
  
• The Broadway production of the musical version of the movie "The Full Monty" opened at the Eugene O'Neill Theater in New York on October 26, 2000, ran for 770 performances and was nominated for the 2001 Tony Awards for the Best Musical, Book and Score.
  
  
• First cinema film of 'Emily Woolf'.
  
  

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