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A Balasaur Score of 78 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.5/10, Rotten Tomatoes 84%, Metacritic 84/100. Scores higher than 93% of the 1,003 1980s comedy movies in this catalog. Streaming on Max.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes84%
Metacritic84/100
641 audience votes
Key crew
- Bruce RobinsonDirector
- David DundasOriginal Music Composer
- Rick WentworthOriginal Music Composer
- Bruce RobinsonWriter
Cast
- Richard E. GrantWithnail
- Paul McGann...& I
- Richard GriffithsMonty
- Ralph BrownDanny
- Michael ElphickJake
- Daragh O'MalleyIrishman
- Michael WardleIsaac Parkin
- Una Brandon-JonesMrs. Parkin
- Noel JohnsonGeneral
- Irene SutcliffeWaitress
- Llewellyn ReesTea Shop Proprietor
- Robert OatesPoliceman 1
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Themes
drug dealerlondon, englandnorthern englandcountrysidealcoholdarknessflatbathdark comedyunclecigar smokingcannabis
The Best Movies of 1987
Withnail & I is #17 of 60
