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Bruce Robinson (writer)
Release Date:
19 June 1987 (USA)
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You are invited to spend an hilarious weekend in the English countryside. more
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London 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp...
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Reference To Hamlet
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1 win
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(3 articles)
Griffiths Is Homesick On Broadway
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Ritchie Movie Tops Best London Film Set List
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Ritchie Movie Tops Best London Film Set List
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A Journey back to the 60s with George Harrison
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Richard E. Grant | ... | Withnail |
| Paul McGann | ... | Marwood |
| Richard Griffiths | ... | Monty |
 | Ralph Brown | ... | Danny |
| Michael Elphick | ... | Jake |
| Daragh O'Malley | ... | Irishman |
| Michael Wardle | ... | Isaac Parkin |
| Una Brandon-Jones | ... | Mrs. Parkin |
| Noel Johnson | ... | General |
| Irene Sutcliffe | ... | Waitress |
| Llewellyn Rees | ... | Tea Shop Proprietor |
| Robert Oates | ... | Policeman One |
| Anthony Wise | ... | Policeman Two |
| Eddie Tagoe | ... | Presuming Ed |
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107 min
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Canada:R (Ontario) |
USA:R (certificate #28355) |
Australia:MA |
Canada:G (Quebec) |
New Zealand:R13 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:15 |
Spain:13 |
Singapore:PG |
Finland:K-16
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The last scenes of the film to be shot were those in Regents Park next to the Wolves. Paul McGann wore a wig in the scenes when the two are walking together and talking on the bench.
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Continuity: When Marwood is seen knocking at the Penrith cottage door looking for the farmer, there is a distinctive black coal bucket outside. When the camera pans out before he leaves, the coal bucket is no longer there.
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Uncle Monty:
There is, you'll agree, a certain 'je ne sais quoi' oh, so very special about a firm, young carrot. Mmmm, excuse me.
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References Gone with the Wind (1939)
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Soundtrack:
A Whiter Shade of Pale
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Withnail and I is set in an old, run down student flat in London's Camden Town at the end of the 1960's. Withnail and I are a couple of unemployed actors from different ends of the social spectrum.
Withnail is a Harrow educated dilettante, and rather upper crust; his flatmate Marwood is a grammar school boy with a slightly more realistic outlook on life. To escape from the squalor of their grim, unemployed, existence in Camden Town, soaked in a near lethal cocktail of alcohol and drugs, the desperate pair call upon the generosity of Withnail's uncle Montague and secure the use of his cottage in the country for a weekend.
Uncle Monty is an eccentric middle-aged homosexual, who prefers vegetables to flowers. He considers that 'flowers are essentially tarts - prostitutes for the bees', and wears a radish in his buttonhole in preference to a flower. He grows vegetables in pots in his Chelsea house, and makes suggestive references to 'firm young carrots'.
Withnail (excellently played by Richard E. Grant), persuades Uncle Monty (a superb Richard Griffiths) to lend Marwood (a convincing Paul McGann) and him his cottage in the country for the weekend.
Their exploits at the cottage, and in Penrith where they spend their Wellington boot money on booze and try to sober up in a gentile tearoom are memorable, witty and entertaining. The incongruous uncle Monty reciting Baudelaire in the Cumbrian hills, seeking carnal knowledge of Marwood (apparently coerced by the cowardly and treacherous Withnail), are testament to the writing skills and humour of author and director, Bruce Robinson.
The film's soundtrack brings us 'A Whiter Shade of Pale', played by King Curtis on the Saxophone, 'My Friend' and 'Walk hand in Hand', performed by Charlie Kunz, 'Schubert's Piano Sonata in B Flat Major' performed by Leslie Pearson, 'All Along the Watchtower' and 'Voodoo Chile', by Jimi Hendrix, 'Hang Out the Stars in Indiana', performed by Al Bowlly, and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', by the late lamented George Harrison, who provided much of the financial backing for this memorable film.
This is a thoroughly entertaining 108 minutes of humorous entertainment, a few too many drinks, a convincing 60's atmosphere, superb performances from the excellent cast, and music to make your heart, and your guitar, gently weep. Thank you, George Harrison.