Withnail and I (1986)
Country: GB
Technical: col 108m
Director: Bruce Robinson
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths
Synopsis:
Semi-autobiographical account of Robinson's own experiences with an alcoholic out-of-work actor, which include spending a weekend in an unheated Cumbrian cottage and protecting his chastity from the predations of his friend's Uncle Monty.
Review:
Its release delayed by a couple of years, this uproarious comedy for bilious misanthropes was eventually picked up by Handmade Films and became a student hit par excellence, to be repaired to at a late-night show after an evening of bevvies. The wantonly anti-social and self-destructive behaviour of its truculent antihero, together with some highly quotable lines, set the seal on what was to be a career-defining performance by Grant. It nearly always seems to be raining on this 'hapless fucker', and as the first drops of another shower spatter him heedlessly in the local park, and he recites one of Hamlet's soliloquies, we are indeed moved by this simple recourse to poetry, forgetting the incongruity.
Country: GB
Technical: col 108m
Director: Bruce Robinson
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths
Synopsis:
Semi-autobiographical account of Robinson's own experiences with an alcoholic out-of-work actor, which include spending a weekend in an unheated Cumbrian cottage and protecting his chastity from the predations of his friend's Uncle Monty.
Review:
Its release delayed by a couple of years, this uproarious comedy for bilious misanthropes was eventually picked up by Handmade Films and became a student hit par excellence, to be repaired to at a late-night show after an evening of bevvies. The wantonly anti-social and self-destructive behaviour of its truculent antihero, together with some highly quotable lines, set the seal on what was to be a career-defining performance by Grant. It nearly always seems to be raining on this 'hapless fucker', and as the first drops of another shower spatter him heedlessly in the local park, and he recites one of Hamlet's soliloquies, we are indeed moved by this simple recourse to poetry, forgetting the incongruity.
Country: GB
Technical: col 108m
Director: Bruce Robinson
Cast: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths
Synopsis:
Semi-autobiographical account of Robinson's own experiences with an alcoholic out-of-work actor, which include spending a weekend in an unheated Cumbrian cottage and protecting his chastity from the predations of his friend's Uncle Monty.
Review:
Its release delayed by a couple of years, this uproarious comedy for bilious misanthropes was eventually picked up by Handmade Films and became a student hit par excellence, to be repaired to at a late-night show after an evening of bevvies. The wantonly anti-social and self-destructive behaviour of its truculent antihero, together with some highly quotable lines, set the seal on what was to be a career-defining performance by Grant. It nearly always seems to be raining on this 'hapless fucker', and as the first drops of another shower spatter him heedlessly in the local park, and he recites one of Hamlet's soliloquies, we are indeed moved by this simple recourse to poetry, forgetting the incongruity.