Withnail and I Movie Review 1987

A biting and original black comedy about a pair of unemployed, nearly starving English actors during the late 1960s. They decide to retreat to a country house owned by Withnail's uncle, for a vacation and are beset by comic misadventures, particularly when the uncle, who is gay, starts to hit on his nephew's friend. Robinson, who scripted "The Killing Fields," makes his successful directorial debut, in addition to drafting the screenplay from his own novel. Co-produced by George Harrison and Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr).

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 108 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Black Comedy, Drug Use & Abuse, Cults, Buddies, Gays, Mistaken Identity

Screenplay

Bruce Robinson

Cast

Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick

Cinematography

Peter Hannan

Director

Bruce Robinson

Music

David Dundas

Producer

Handmade Films