The Full Monty VHS
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Fox released "The Full Monty" on VHS in 1997, the same year the film became one of the most unlikely box office stories of the decade. British. Sheffield-set. Shot on a budget of roughly 3.5 million dollars. The film crossed 257 million dollars worldwide, a return ratio that made every major studio re-examine what a working-class comedy with no stars could do on the international market. This is the retail clamshell from that original North American release.
"The Full Monty" arrived at a moment when British independent cinema was punching well above its weight. "Trainspotting" had come out the previous year and cracked American art-house screens wide open for UK productions. Fox Searchlight had been operating for about two years and was still finding the model for how a major studio subsidiary handles a foreign-language-adjacent acquisition with genuine mainstream appeal. "The Full Monty" became the proof of concept. The Academy nominated it for four Oscars including Best Picture, and it took home the win for Best Original Score. Back home, it swept the BAFTAs, taking Best Film, Best British Film, and Best Original Screenplay. The Sheffield setting was not a liability. It was the whole argument: these six unemployed steelworkers and their last-ditch strip routine hit a nerve in post-industrial Britain that audiences in Tokyo, Sydney, and Chicago apparently recognized without translation.
Sheffield steel mills closed and six men stripped down to reclaim their dignity on magnetic ribbon.
This copy is the standard retail clamshell, the yellow-background sleeve with three of the cast front and center. The design is bright and a little absurd in the best way, which matches the film. Condition on clamshell VHS from this period lives and dies in three places: the hinge where the two shell halves meet, the tape window on the spine side, and the printed sleeve insert for color fade along the yellow band. Open the clamshell and check the hinge seam for any crack or separation before you commit.
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Sheffield steel mills closed and six men stripped down to reclaim their dignity on magnetic ribbon.
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This the full monty vhs originates from the 90s era[01], represents 20th Century Fox[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
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- 90s
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