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Withnail & I (1987)
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Two unemployed actors attempt a country escape with the social skills of a minor diplomatic incident. Richard E. Grant's grand indignation and Paul McGann's alarm make even buying supplies feel perilous. The quotability grows out of their dependence on each other, with a genuine sadness under the drinking. It is sour company rather than a cosy British holiday.
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About Withnail & I
Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.