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Synopsis: London, 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's country cottage. But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat limited. Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood...
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Bruce Robinson
Production: Cineplex-Odeon Films
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
R
Year:
1987
107 min
2,153 Views


to the station. I'll be late.

- There's always time for a drink.

- No.

I don't have the time.

All right. I'll walk with you

through the park.

We can drink it on the way.

No. No more, thank you.

Listen, Withnail. It's a stinker.

Why don't you go back?

- Because I wanna walk you to the station.

- Well, don't.

Please don't.

I really don't want you to.

I shall miss you, Withnail.

I shall miss you too. Chin-chin.

"I have of late,

but wherefore I know not,

"lost all my mirth.

"And indeed it goes so heavily

with my disposition...

"that this goodly frame the earth...

"seems to me a sterile promontory.

"It's a most excellent canopy, the air.

"Look you, this brave,

o'er hanging firmament.

"This majestical roof

fretted with golden fire.

"Why, it appeareth nothing to me...

"but a foul and pestilent

congregation of vapors.

"What a piece of work is a man,

"how noble in reason,

"how infinite in faculties,

"how like an angel in apprehension.

"How like a god!

"The beauty of the world:

"Paragon of animals:

"Yet to me, what is

this quintessence of dust?

"Man delights not me.

"No, nor women neither.

Nor women neither. "

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Bruce Robinson

Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. He is arguably most famous for writing and directing the cult classic Withnail and I (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the 1960s, which drew on his experiences as "a chronic alcoholic and resting actor, living in squalor" in Camden Town. more…

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