Celebrate the 25th Birthday of “The Full Monty,” Plus 4 More Sundance Films With August Anniversaries

Twenty-five years ago this month, many of us learned the meaning of the expression “the full monty.” It was 1997, and a unique ensemble-cast film led by Robert Carlyle — following a group of unemployed English steelworkers and laborers who organize a male striptease act, vowing to do the Chippendales one better by stripping all the way down (the full monty) — opened to critical acclaim. Introduced to independent-film fans at the Sundance Film Festival earlier that same year, the comedy was a huge success upon its wide release on August 13. The film was praised as much, nay more, for its humanity and tenderness as for the novelty of the fleeting stripping scene.

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