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Withnail & I

If you don't remember the 60s don't worry, neither can they.

7.2(649)19871h 48m5

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.

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Status
Released
Budget
—
Box office
$1.5M
Language
Latin
  • drug dealer
  • london, england
  • northern england
  • countryside
  • alcohol
  • darkness
  • flat
  • bath
  • dark comedy
  • uncle
  • cigar smoking
  • cannabis

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United Kingdom, Canada

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereRNew York New Directors and New Films Festival27 Mar 1987
    • Theatrical19 Jun 1987
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical1519 Jun 1987
  • AustraliaAU

    • Theatrical29 Oct 1987
    • PhysicalMA 15+DVD4 Apr 2009
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Theatrical12Blu ray30 Sept 2011
    • Physical12DVD3 Oct 2011
  • PortugalPT

    • TheatricalM/161 Jan 1991
  • SpainES

    • Theatrical27 Oct 1988

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Withnail & I was released on 19 June 1987.

Audience reviews

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    LastCaress1972

    8/11/2013

    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 g…

  • A

    Arrrrrrrach

    2/18/2017

    10/10

    A beautiful, dreary and funny film. At times subtle and others direct. Deeply contemplative with majestic scenery and an atmosphere of grey. Sardonic humour with believable, excellently acted characters and scenarios. It's the greatest film about friendship and only gets better with each viewing. The direction is purely cinematic and shows rather than tells. A Masterpiece.

  • F

    Filipe Manuel Neto

    3/6/2023

    4/10

    **It's a good film, but it's very damaged by the abuse of alcohol, drugs and tobacco, and by the weakness of the script, in terms of narrative.** I expected a lot more from this movie, I have to confess. It is considered by many to be one of the best British comic films, and there is no doubt that the dialogues and situations were extremely funny, and it is not difficult to laugh at the absurd situations and conve…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    3/6/2024

    7/10

    Just what exactly was it lurking in the sink? Probably best not to know as we meet the dipso "Withnail" (Richard E. Grant) and his marginally more respectable pal who'd be the "Marwood/I" (Paul McGann). Two "resting" actors who haven't tuppence to rub together. A visit to his gay uncle "Monty" (Richard Grffiths) provides them with some fine wine and with the key to his remote country cottage where they duly adjourn f…

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