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starring: Una Brandon-Jones, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304271506
Format: Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6304271506
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: September 10, 1997
Running Time: 110 minutes
Sales Rank: 25520
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: June 19, 1987
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A corrosively funny, semiautobiographical account by writer-director Bruce Robinson (How to Get Ahead in Advertising) about a couple of destitute roommates, young actors living in drunken squalor in 1969, the twilight days of swingin' London. Withnail (the astounding Richard E. Grant in a definitive performance) is a kind of depraved, modern-day Oscar Wilde, but without the money or the manners. The 'I' of the title is the younger and more impressionable Marwood (Paul McGann), who stands somewhat in awe of his scandalous, demented, hysterical pal. While on a miserable holiday in the bitterly cold and damp countryside, they stay with wealthy, corpulent 'Uncle Monty' (Richard Griffiths), who takes quite a liking to young Marwood, much to his consternation. Though not well known in the United States, Withnail & I has a major cult following in England. It's uproariously funny in a peculiarly British way, and the acting is absolutely scintillating. (Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert said Griffiths's was the best performance by an actor in a British film since Denholm Elliott in A Room with a View.) This one's a real treat for the caustic at heart. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Hilarious...
British film set in London in the 1960's. Withnail (played by Richard E. Grant) and Marwood (Paul McGann) are aspiring actors. Both are unemployed and penniless and seemingly always in search of drink. The live in a dirty bachelor pad with the sink filled with dirty dishes, a bathtub filled with who-knows-what and the pitter-patter of rodents ever present. They seeks ways to stay warm as their money has run out. Withnail, the leader of the two, rails over life's injustices. Marwood is the more ... Read More
Rating: - One of the all time cult greats
In the UK, Withnail and I is a seminal cult classic. A pean to 60s romanticism, alcoholism, individuality and talent sordidly and tragically pissed up the wall. Withnail and Marwood are two 'resting' actors living in magnificent squalor in Camden Town in the late 1960s. Frustrated and depressed with their existence, a pile of fetid washing up in the sink and Withnail with a recklessly unstable antifreeze drinking habit (the film has spawned its own drinking game), they manage to escape to a Lake District ... Read More
Rating: - The finest film available to humanity
I can't help thinking that a lot of people get this film wrong. Yes, it is very very funnny and yes, it is the most quotable film I know (I know practically the whole script by heart - does that make me a nerd?), but surely it is much more than that? If Withnail was 'just' a funny quotable film, I don't think it would A) have achieved such cult status and B) would have touched so many people (well me at least) in such a profound way. Withnail is funny but it is also a very moving film about friendship. It's ... Read More
Rating: - Flowers are basically tarts, prostitutes for the bees
There is one film that might be funnier than Withnail and I, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and that's it. The dialogue is brilliant. Every line is quotable, over and over.
The secret is that you must watch Withnail and I many times. Watch it over and over. Then you will realize its genius. It cannot be gotten in one viewing.
Rating: - Withnail and I
Adapted by Robinson from his own autobiographical novel, this jet-black comedy of despair and degeneracy in late '60s Britain has been a cult favorite for two decades. Pickled in poisonous wit and low-life humor, "Withnail" is a masterful character study of two flat-mates glimpsed as they go from worse to much worse. Grant's bitchy, high-strung, self-annihilating turn as Withnail is particularly madcap. McGann, playing the titular "I," is a wounded observer, content to be Withnail's drunken helpmate, at least ... Read More
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