WITHNAIL & I
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...
original title: | Withnail & I |
country: | United Kingdom |
year: | 1987 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Bruce Robinson |
film run: | 107' |
release date: | UK 08/1987, IT 11/1987, SE 05/02/1988, ES 28/10/1988, FI 1988, FR 08/02/1989, PT 01/02/1991, DE 29/02/1996, CH 17/04/1998, GR 06/09/2007 |
screenplay: | Bruce Robinson |
cast: | Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths |
cinematography by: | Peter Hannan |
film editing: | Alan Strachan |
art director: | Michael Pickwoad |
costumes designer: | Andrea Galer |
producer: | Paul M. Heller |
co-producer: | David Wimbury |
executive producer: | George Harrison, Denis O'Brien |
associate producer: | Lawrence Kirstein |