Withnail & I

(1987)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 640 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Year: 1987

Runtime: 108 мин

Country: United Kingdom, Canada

Director: Bruce Robinson

Cast: Ричард Э. Грант, Пол МакГанн, Ричард Гриффитс, Ральф Браун, Майкл Элфик, Daragh O'Malley, Michael Wardle, Una Brandon-Jones, Ноэль Джонсон, Irene Sutcliffe

Plot

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.

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...