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Depressed drunks were never so funny.

- Withnail is a ferocious drunk, but he was played by the teetotaler Richard E. Grant. Finally convinced that he needed to get drunk at least once to have the proper insight into the character, Grant "filled a tumbler with vodka and topped it off with a bit of Pepsi", then swilled the whole thing down.

- When director Bruce Robinson was appearing in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet (1968), the director tried constantly to seduce him. Robinson incorporated many of Zeffirelli's chat-up lines into Uncle Monty's dialog as he pursues Marwood.

Withnail And I

Running Time: 1:47:45 Rating: R Genre: Comedy

Synopsis:

Bruce Robinson (The Killing Fields) wrote and directed this bleak and funny autobiography about two unemployed actors on a disastrous vacation in the 1969 English countryside.

Starring:

Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick

Director:

Bruce Robinson

Withnail and I

(1:47:45)

By: with Released: 2/27/2009 Genre: Comedy

15 Ratings

Bruce Robinson (The Killing Fields) wrote and directed this bleak and funny autobiography about two unemployed actors on a disastrous vacation in the 1969 English countryside.