All or nothing

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Movie
German title All or nothing
Original title The Full Monty
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter Cattaneo
script Simon Beaufoy
production Uberto Pasolini
music Anne Dudley
camera John de Borman
cut David Freeman
Nick Moore
occupation

All or nothing is a British comedy film from 1997 . The director is Peter Cattaneo . The location is the city of Sheffield in England . The film was shot in just 40 days of shooting and with a budget of 3.5 million US dollars realized.

action

The film begins with a short film showing the thriving steel industry and the economic wealth and general prosperity of the northern English industrial city of Sheffield in the early 1970s . 25 years later in the same town - steel mills are rusting, industry is largely shut down and trains dormant - Gary “Gaz” Schoefield and Dave Osborne are seen desperately trying to make money by stealing steel beams from the old steel mills.

In addition to his unemployment , Gaz is burdened with private problems. His wife Mandy, who is separated from him and the mother of his son Nathan, wants to apply for sole custody because he is in arrears with maintenance payments. Nathan finds that his father is looking after him in spite of all his difficulties, and later even takes money from his bank account to help Gaz. And he defends Gaz when it comes to a dispute between Gaz and Mandy.

Then Gaz, Dave and Nathan see women queuing for a Chippendales show. That gives Gaz the idea of ​​putting on such a show to earn the money to support the children .

The first to join the group is the lonely lomper who, after losing his job as a security guard, wants to kill himself with the fumes from his car. Dave can save him and Lomper regains courage because his new friends and the group give him support and hope.

Next on Dave and Gaz's list is their old foreman Gerald Arthur Cooper, whom they see taking dance classes with his wife and ask for dance lessons. Cooper reacts with insults and says he is on his way to an interview. Dave and Gaz follow him and distract him by faxing outside the window so that Cooper doesn't get the job he was already sure of.

The two apologize to Cooper and can still win him as a choreographer . Together with Cooper, Dave and Gaz cast members for the group from their old colleagues.

As the men practice for the show, doubts grow as to whether they can really make money from it. In addition, there are uncertainties about one's own appearance (Dave, for example, is overweight ). And Gaz repeatedly announces that their show - unlike that of the Chippendales - will be "the full monty" ( British English : absolutely everything, all or nothing (see film title)): that the men are doing their striptease will undress completely. Dave leaves the group a few days before the show because he's such a fat bastard that nobody wants to see naked, even their own wife.

Some of the men are caught in their samples in an old factory with lowered underpants, and there is an unusual chase only with orange thongs clad strippers . Guy and Lomper escape and save themselves in Lomper's house, where they finally have the courage to show their affection and fall into each other's arms.

The police show the arrested men the surveillance tapes from the old factory building, and their secret is soon known to the city. Everything seems to be lost because now everyone knows the members of the group. They are about to give up when the bar owner Gaz says he has already sold 200 tickets for their show.

With little more to lose, they decide to go through with the program - including Gerald, who is back to work, Dave, whom his wife encourages, and Gaz, who is sent on stage by his son when he is with the fear gets. The men strip to Tom Jones ' version of You Can Leave Your Hat On , and the film ends with them throwing the last thing they cover themselves with - their hats - into the audience.

criticism

“A warm-hearted, nuanced comedy full of humor, humor and soft, socially critical tones, which never misuses its characters for rough jokes with admirable respect and great sympathy, but draws its comic potential from the careful observation of contradictions. In an amusing and entertaining way, the first work deals with the power of rascally lightness as well as with healing changes in the male self-image. "

- Lexicon of international film

Stage versions

The musical adaptation (original title like the film, German Ladies Night ), which premiered three years later, was also a great success. The plot had been moved to the USA, but otherwise hardly changed and still ensures full houses on German theaters today - not least because of the mostly authentically staged strip scenes. For example, the production in the Kammerspiele of the Theater in der Josefstadt with Alexander Pschill and Michael Ostrowski was sold out on all 135 performance evenings. An earlier play by Anthony McCarten shows great similarities to the film plot, which is why the authors made plagiarism allegations .

Awards

European Film Award 1997
  • Best movie
Golden Globe Awards 1997

Nominated:

  • Best Film (Comedy)
Academy Awards 1998

Also nominated in the categories:

British Academy Film Award 1998

Also nominated in the categories:

  • Best British Film
  • Best Supporting Actor - Mark Addy
  • Best Supporting Actress - Lesley Sharp
  • Best director - Peter Cattaneo
  • Best Original Screenplay - Peter Beaufoy
  • Best Score - Anne Dudley
  • Best Editing - Nick Moore, David Freeman
  • Best note - Alistair Crocker, Adrian Rhodes, Ian Wilson
Warsaw Film Festival 1997
  • Audience award

The British Film Institute voted All Or Not At All 25th Best British Films of the 20th Century in 1999 .

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

literature

  • Claudia Lillge: The Glorious Six: Peter Cattaneo's working-class comedy All or nothing . In: Jörn Glasenapp , Claudia Lillge (Hrsg.): The film comedy of the present. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2008, pp. 47-64.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All or nothing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ josefstadt.org. Retrieved February 25, 2014 .