Withnail and I (1987)
Two out-of-work actors spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. Needing a holiday, they obtain the key to a country cottage in the Lake District, however, the holiday is less recuperative than they expected.
28 December 1916, West Bromwich, West Midlands, England, UK
14 November 1959, Kensington, Liverpool, England, UK
25 May 1954, Dublin, Ireland
12 July 1924, Burnley, Lancashire, England, UK
5 May 1957, Mbabane, Union of South Africa [now Swaziland]
31 July 1947, Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
24 April 1916, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK
19 September 1946, Chichester, Sussex, England, UK
18 June 1901, Charmouth, Dorset, England, UK
18 June 1957, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
September 10, 2007
A hilarious black comedy and already something of a cult favorite.
January 26, 2006
A biting script from writer-director Bruce Robinson and performances from Richard E Grant and Paul McGann as two 'resting' actors, Withnail and 'I', that neither has surpassed.
April 07, 2010
Has a particularly rabid following. Maybe one has to be English to really understand why.
September 08, 2007
It is at once a coming-of-age comedy and a fond farewell to an era.
November 18, 2007
A defining rites-of-passage classic film.
September 10, 2007
Set in 1969 England, it portrays the last throes of a friendship mirroring the seedy demise of the hippie period, delivering some comic gems along the way.
September 30, 2014
A career high for all concerned, including '80s British cinema.
September 10, 2007
It's much funnier, and sadder, watched stone-cold sober.
September 07, 2007
The best British comedy ever made? Possibly. A masterpiece? Unquestionably.
August 29, 2010
One of the funniest elements of Withnail & I is that it concerns three varieties of drama queen: the flamboyantly dark-minded Withnail; neurotic, ill-equipped Marwood, and the larger-than-life Monty. [Blu-ray]
September 07, 2007
A modern classic? A brilliant vignette of a certain time and attitudes? A self-indulgent jeu d'esprit? One thing is certain: Richard E. Grant touched greatness.
November 12, 2010
Perhaps Britain's most beloved cult film, Bruce Robinson's 1986 semi-autobiographical dark comedy is an obsessively observed character study.
