Withnail and I, blogged

In his first film, Bruce Robinson demonstrates the power of simplicity. The two main characters, Withnail (Richard E Grant) and his friend Marlowe (Paul McGann, never actually given a name throughout the film, but I'm not going to call him 'I' throughout this review, I would get confused), are unemployed actors. They survive on booze and pills in a squalid flat. Marlowe is the sensitive and articulate one, and Withnail is, well, Richard E Grant basically, a wild-eyed posh maniac. After wandering round their flat for a bit and then nearly getting beaten up in a pub by the bloke who was Sargeant Harper in Sharpe, the pair decide to get out of the city for a week in the country, borrowing the keys to an eccentric uncle's cottage. Once in the country, they wander round for a bit having wacky adventures with terrifying locals until Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths) shows up to attempt to seduce Marlowe.

Reviewed by Andrew. For the review in its entirity go here: http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/dvd-title-w/withnail-and-i/433715/

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WITHNAIL: "Monty, you terrible cunt!"

WITHNAIL: "I feel like a pig shat in my head."

WITHNAIL: "Don't threaten ME with a dead fish!"

MONTY: "You've been trudging about in this ghastly mud and omska."

MONTY: "I must have you! Even if it must be burglary!"

WITHNAIL: "Rejuvinate? I'm in a park and I'm practically dead. What good's the countryside gonna do me?"

MONTY: "Come on lads. The sky is beginning to bruise, night must fall and we shall be forced to camp."