a very successful British film (1997) about a group of unemployed men from Sheffield in the north of England who get jobs as strippers (= performers who take their clothes off in front of an audience as a form of entertainment) because they cannot find any other work. It won an Oscar for its music and a musical of the same name opened on Broadway in 2000. The full monty is an informal phrase in British English meaning ‘absolutely everything’.
FULL MONTY
Meaning of FULL MONTY in English
Oxford guide to British and American culture English vocabulary. Руководство по британской и американской культуре, Оксфордский английский словарь. 2005