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Withnail & I. Image shows from L to R: I (Paul McGann), Withnail (Richard E. Grant). Copyright: Hand Made Films
Withnail & I

Withnail & I

  • 1987 film

Film following the drink-and drug-fuelled misadventures of two struggling actors in a squalid London flat and an isolated Lake District cottage. Stars Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick and more.

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In search of the Withnail & I locations 30 years on

Three decades after the release of the cult British comedy, we go on holiday by mistake...

Adam Scovell, British Film Institute, 11th April 2017

Why I love Withnail And I

Happy 30th to Bruce Robinson's cult British comedy: Sooz Kempner thinks you haven't aged a day.

Sooz Kempner, Standard Issue, 10th April 2017

Withnail & I: 10 reasons why it's the best UK comedy

Withnail and I is a melancholic masterpiece and one of the funniest British films ever made.

Ed Power, The Telegraph, 10th April 2017

A sordid, supremely funny trudge through the pathetic lives of two destitute actors - Paul McGann's Marwood and the languidly furious Withnail (Richard E Grant) - who survive on drugs and drink in grotty Camden Town, then head unwisely for the rural idyll of Uncle Monty's (Richard Griffiths) freezing country cottage. A glory of British cinematic comedy.

Paul Howlett, The Guardian, 3rd June 2016

First draft of Withnail and I set for auction

The first draft of the novel that went on to be turned into cult film Withnail and I is set for auction at Sotheby's.

BBC News, 12th December 2015

Withnail and I: 'farewell to a lost era'

Withnail and I was regarded for many years as a cult film but stands now as one of the finest British films of the Eighties. And what's not to like about a film with the line: "Don't threaten me with a dead fish"?

Martin Chilton, The Telegraph, 12th December 2015

Jack the Ripper: has Bruce Robinson solved the crime?

After 15 years of research, the director of Withnail & I believes he has cracked the most enduring mystery in British criminal history - and talks about Withnail & I and his own links to both stories.

Mick Brown, The Telegraph, 2nd October 2015

Withnail and I, film review

Withnail and I was regarded for many years as a cult film but stands now as one of the finest British films of the Eighties. And what's not to like about a film with the line: "Don't threaten me with a dead fish"?

Martin Chilton, The Telegraph, 24th April 2015

Blu-Ray and DVD review: Withnail & I

What makes Withnail & I a classic is their humbling familiarity to anyone who's ever been a bit down and out, or felt scuppered by the hand life has dealt (careers in the arts or otherwise). To paraphrase Charles Dickens: it's most certainly the worst of times, but quite possibly the best of them too.

Emma Hay, TV Bomb, 3rd November 2014

How many of these Withnail & I quotes do you remember?

How well you do know this boozy '80s cult classic?

Us vs Th3m, 27th August 2014

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