The Full Monty/The History Boys Robert Carlyle 2006 DVD Top-quality

‘The Full Monty’ (1997) stars Robert Carlyle as unemployed Sheffield steelworker Gaz who hatches a plan to make his fortune after witnessing the hysteria generated by male strippers The Chippendales. Along with pal Dave (Mark Addy), he forms a strip act made up of a mixed bunch including depressed security guard Lomper (Steve Huison) and their former foreman, Gerald (Tom Wilkinson). Once they have practiced their routine they set out to reclaim their dignity by going ‘the full monty’ in their act. In ‘The History Boys’ (2006), adapted from the play by Alan Bennett, eight bright history students in the mid-1980s are pursuing an undergraduate place at the country’s two finest universities. Their headmaster is obsessed with breaking into the ranks of those schools that regularly send boys up to Oxford and Cambridge and enlists Irwin (Stephen Campbell Moore), a shrewd newcomer, to coach the boys into intellectual shape for the trials ahead. Will any of them win a place at the illustrious universities?