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With the international success of the 1997 independent film, “The Full Monty”, Fox Searchlight Pictures’ producer Lindsay Law was besieged with offers from theatre companies wanting the rights to write a musical. The little $3.5 million project, funded by 20th Century Fox’s Searchlight Pictures, took audiences by surprise and stunned the industry, raking in $46 million at the box office in the USA and a whooping $198 million elsewhere. “Monty” would go on to garner four Academy Award nominations - including one for best picture - and nab an Oscar for Anne Dudley’s comedy score. The movie - about desperate, unemployed steelworkers in Sheffield, England, who bare it all for cash - became one of the surprise sensations of the British film industry.
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