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19/06/1987 Comedy, Drama 1h 48m
72
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If you don't remember the 60s don't worry, neither can they.

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.

  1. Bruce Robinson

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Richard E. Grant

    Withnail

  2. Paul McGann

    ...& I

  3. Richard Griffiths

    Monty

  4. Ralph Brown

    Danny

  5. Michael Elphick

    Jake

  6. Daragh O'Malley

    Irishman

  7. Michael Wardle

    Isaac Parkin

  8. Una Brandon-Jones

    Mrs. Parkin

  9. Noel Johnson

    General

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Reviews

A review by LastCaress1972
Written by LastCaress1972 on 2013-08-11
Bought this on DVD for a £2 on a second-hand market stall a couple of years ago, then upgraded it to blu-ray a few months ago when I saw it on sale in HMV for a bargaintastic three quid. Yet I'd never got around to actually watching it. I'd bought it (twice) off the back of it being this enormous cult classic weighed down with critical praise (Wiki tells me that the readers of Total Film magazine voted it the third greatest comedy film of all time in 2000 and the 13th greatest British film of all time in 2004, it was ranked 38th greatest film of all time by Channel 4 in 2001 in their 100 Grea...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$1,544,889.00

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