Withnail & I
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Actor: Michael Elphick, Ralph Brown, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Una Brandon-JonesPrimary Contributor: Richard E. Grant
Primary Contributor: Paul McGann
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC, Original recording reissued
Running Time: 107 minutes
Release Date: 1997-09-10
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
VHS Movie Reviews of Withnail & I
Movie Review: Hilarious and heartbreaking
Summary: 5 Stars
Withnail and I is a film that got in under my radar; I simply hadn't heard of it until recently. After I did IMDB and Google searches on it, I knew it was "my kind" of movie, and I bought the DVD without having ever seen it. It is, if possible, even a better film than I was expecting.
The direction and performances are first-rate, and the script is wonderful. Based on only two viewings (there will be many more), Withnail and I is in my personal top twenty movies.
Summary of Withnail & I
A corrosively funny, semiautobiographical account by writer-director Bruce Robinson (How to Get Ahead in Advertising) about a couple of destitute roommates, young actors living in drunken squalor in 1969, the twilight days of swingin' London. Withnail (the astounding Richard E. Grant in a definitive performance) is a kind of depraved, modern-day Oscar Wilde, but without the money or the manners. The "I" of the title is the younger and more impressionable Marwood (Paul McGann), who stands somewhat in awe of his scandalous, demented, hysterical pal. While on a miserable holiday in the bitterly cold and damp countryside, they stay with wealthy, corpulent "Uncle Monty" (Richard Griffiths), who takes quite a liking to young Marwood, much to his consternation. Though not well known in the United States, Withnail & I has a major cult following in England. It's uproariously funny in a peculiarly British way, and the acting is absolutely scintillating. (Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert said Griffiths's was the best performance by an actor in a British film since Denholm Elliott in A Room with a View.) This one's a real treat for the caustic at heart. --Jim EmersonArt House & International VHS Video
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