Directed
by Bruce
Robinson
Written by Bruce Robinson
Starring Richard
E. Grant, Paul
McGann, Richard
Griffiths, Ralph
Brown, Michael
Elphick, Daragh
O'Malley, Michael
Wardle, Una
Brandon-Jones, Noel
Johnson, Irene
Sutcliffe, Llewellyn
Rees, Robert
Oates, Anthony
Wise, Eddie
Tagoe
London
1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable)
actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with
damp,
cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic
Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid
Camden
flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy
of Withnail's uncle Monty's country cottage. But
when they
get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their
basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat
limited.
Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who
shows an uncomfortably keen interest in
Marwood...
Genre:
Comedy
Runtime:
UK:107
Country: UK
Language: English
Certification: UK:15 / USA:R / Sweden:15
Famulous
Northern
California USA - 13 September 1999
Summary:
Role of a lifetime
Richard
E Grant is simply perfect as Withnail, the addled but
undoubtedly well-equipped "actor" on
holiday
with his pal, the "I" in the title. His soliloquy from
Hamlet in the final scene is one of the best
readings
of that scene anyone's done in film. This is a film with
a point, and a great way of avoiding
making it
too emphatically. I love every character, and every line.
When Withnail frantically searches for
antifreeze
after drinking lighter fluid in a crazed attempt to
become drunk, "I" says, "Everyone knows
you
shouldn't mix your drinks!" Superb!
