Film · 1987 · Black comedy
Withnail and I
Directed by Bruce Robinson
1987
United Kingdom
★ 5.8 editorial score
Richard E. Grant does not drink and had to be taught to be convincing: two unemployed actors leave London for a cottage in 1969 with no money, no food and no plan whatsoever.
“Richard E Grant and Paul McGann are the eponymous Withnail and I, the two resting actors living in bohemian squalor in north London’s Camden Town in the late 60s. They conceive the catastrophic plan of getting away for the weekend at a country cottage owned by Withnail’s garrulous Uncle Monty...a witty, florid, predatory queen of the old school...I feel an intense envy for people who are about to see this for the first time.”
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