Withnail & I

Withnail & I

★ 7.2IMDb Score
Released:1987-06-19
Duration:108 min
Director:Bruce Robinson
Actors:Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick
Production:Handmade Films, Cineplex-Odeon Films

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.

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