Movie
Withnail & I
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1987-06-19
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Handmade Films, Cineplex-Odeon Films
- Country
- United Kingdom, Canada
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Richard E. Grant as Withnail
- Paul McGann as ...& I
- Richard Griffiths as Monty
- Ralph Brown as Danny
- Michael Elphick as Jake
- Daragh O'Malley as Irishman
- Michael Wardle as Isaac Parkin
- Una Brandon-Jones as Mrs. Parkin
- Noel Johnson as General
- Irene Sutcliffe as Waitress
- Llewellyn Rees as Tea Shop Proprietor
- Robert Oates as Policeman 1
Crew
- Bruce Robinson - Director
- Bruce Robinson - Writer
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