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Plot: 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 squa...( read more read more... )

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  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 6, 2008
    Two of the funniest characters I have ever seen. Withnail is essentially Bernard Black form black books if he was to ever try and become an actor. Both characters are eccentric, especially Withnail, and just hilarious. I don't feel like writing much right know so I'll just say that I thought it was great and that Uncle Monty made me cringe so much.
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 1, 2008
    I was looking forward to this movie; lots of people have recommended it to me as 'something you'd love' - but I was ultimately disappointed; it didn't seem to live up to the hype. There was nothing wrong with the movie per se, but there didn't seem to be anything right with it either - there were some funny moments; the cafe scene was absolute genius but the overall film left me feeling unsatisfied. It's a small puff pastry of a film, light, fluffy - good for a little bit but ultimately leaves you unsatisifed.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 18, 2008
    Depictions of twenty something men in films tend to be sentimental and rosy-tinted, but a film has never been as true about the gap between student youth and career men as Withnail & I.

    Withnail and Marlowe hopelessly flail about in the pit of their artistic ambitions, waiting for the call to work. They spend their time in the pursuit of drinking and doing drugs, and trying to cope with the resulting adverse, but incredibly funny effects.

    So intent are they on obliterating their consciousness, because their current situation is so bad, they don't even have the capacity (or facility) for girls. But when they decide a holiday from their sixties Camden holeout (wonderfully recreated) is needed, they find themselves on a strange course which leads them to the wilds of Cumbria and an unwanted love interest in the heavy form of Withnail's sexually repressed upper class Uncle Monty!

    Moreover, Withnail & I, like all of the best films, shows something more than its immediate situation of its two characters, it is about the end of the sixties social and cultural experiments and the beginning of the seventies, opportunity for some and a hangover for others.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    April 15, 2008
    You can watch this movie time and time again. Classic dialogue from Richard E Grant. You feel pissed just watching him.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 13, 2008
    maybe it's just that I didn't get it since everybody is rating this as a masterpiece --but to me it was funny but lacking something

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  • sideburnsmcculloch
    A perfect commedy film.
    posted 297 days ago
  • xxloolamcdoughnutxx
    genius, one of the funniest films i've seen. it's one u can watch over and over again and never get bored of it. this film is a must see.
    posted 313 days ago
  • sadfire24
    This movie gave me the feeling of me being THERE... right next to them, their dirty house, COLD COLD country vacation!! Oh man, i can't forget their gay UNCLE? Monty.. ahaha!!! it was HILARIOUS!!! They had to lie to him so they could use the country house.. it was FUNNY!! Aww, the end was a bit sad though! his friend, who was a hard worker? got a part in a play but he didn't... what a drug addict... :(
    posted 396 days ago
  • kerpow3
    You are loney no more Withnail and I rocks! "There wasn't much deep heat in the tube, there's none left for you!"
    posted 400 days ago
  • yellieisarobot
    i LOVED this film, and im more than a little disheartened that the board is lonely. ]:
    posted 724 days ago

Details

  • Rated: (R)
  • Directed by: No information available.
  • Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Released: June 19, 1987
  • DVD Released: February 8, 2000

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