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Withnail and I [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
Withnail and I [Blu-ray]
Camden Town, the arse-end of the sixties. Two struggling, unemployed actors decide some respite is in order and so depart their miserable flat for a week in the Lake District ? one that will involve rain, booze, minimal supplies, a randy bull and an even randier Uncle Monty. Based on the real-life experiences of former actor turned writer/director Bruce Robinson, WITHNAIL and I has become one of British cinema?s most fondly remembered comedies. A cult film in the truest sense that has also become a classic...
I had returned from a trip to London in '03, and became reacquainted with the film during a few cold rainy days of repeats on some cable channel as I was recovering from my trip, and the depression that often follows. I'm really not sure why I like the films plot other than it's a snapshot in the life of two out of work actors, and the soggy adventure they have over a weekend spent at a country cottage owned by Withnail's Uncle Monty. A couple of other interesting characters lend interest and humour at the end of the film, and serve to underscore the last year of the 1960's. It is a very nostalgic and funny look into that period when England was...Read more
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| Author: ValAnn | I love this movie it has so of the best one liners ever | 10 | |
| Author: Transatlantique (Nowhere.. | I first saw this film in 1987, when a friend of mine who worked at AFI in Hollywood, took me to see it. I didn't much understand it then, before I became an Anglophile. It was a bit murky and I could barely understand the dialect. But after almost 24 years, and several trips to London, I love the film now more than ever.I had returned from a trip to London in '03, and became reacquainted with the film during a few cold rainy days of repeats on some cable channel as I was recovering from my trip, and the depression that often follows. I'm really not sure why I like the films plot other than it's a snapshot in the life of two out of work actors, and the soggy adventure they have over a weekend spent at a country cottage owned by Withnail's Uncle Monty. A couple of other interesting characters lend interest and humour at the end of the film, and serve to underscore the last year of the 1960's. It is a very nostalgic and funny look into that period when England was...Read more | 11 | |
| Author: Donna Donaldson | No one does comedy better than the brits ! | 13 | |
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