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Withnail & I (1987)

Withnail & I (1987)

Drama Comedy

If you don't remember the 60s don't worry, neither can they.

Release Date: 1987, June 19
Directors: Bruce Robinson
Countries: Canada, United Kingdom
Production: Handmade Films, Cineplex-Odeon Films
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Eddie Tagoe, Robert Oates, Anthony Wise, Ralph Brown, Paul McGann, Noel Johnson, Michael Elphick, Una Brandon-Jones, Llewellyn Rees, Daragh O'Malley

Overview:

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Keywords:

buddy comedy gay theme drugs poverty darkness money alcohol farmer dark comedy london, england unemployed drug dealer 1960s uncle buddy rural area cigar smoking countryside cafe alcohol abuse british pub northern england flat strangulation cannabis cottage bath lake district