Withnail and I - Criterion Collection Rating: Release Date: 10 July, 2001 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $26.99 You SAVE: $2.96! Cast: Richard E. Grant Paul McGann Bruce Robinson Richard Johnson Complete Cast (10 total)

Withnail and I - Criterion Collection Reviews

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funniest british movie of all time
as some commentators have mentioned above this film works on several levels.

at the simplest it is a marvellous evocation of a very specific time in london life after 1968 and before 1973 when disillusionment with the 60s was setting in yet one could still live relatively cheaply in a grey area somewhere outside "proper employment"

secondly it is a very funny "road movie" of sorts using the comedy basic of taking very unsuitable people into the country and seeing their hilarious failure to cope

but thirdly and i think most importantly it is a poignant meditation on growing up (not child to man, but man to adult).. ultimately one is either "withnail" or "i"... there is either "always time for a drink" or there isn't..

most of us will stop being withnail after a time, but wish they hadn't..

if you want to see withnail when he's older (if he makes it!), watch peter o toole in "jeffrey bernard is unwell".



Rejuvenate? I'm in a park and I'm practically dead
Right from King Curtis over the opening credits I couldn't take my ears off this film and when Withnail told the farmer that they'd gone on holiday by mistake I almost choked on my own Camberwell Carrot. And hair really are our aerials, I know that now. All this and Jimi Hendrix too. Nice one Bruce. Magic book too that Thomas Penman, I read it round about every Autumn and it hasn't failed yet to leave me in stitches. A bit like the movie really.

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