Withnail & I
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Withnail & I

Year:
Duration:
107 min
Genres:
Comedy | Drama
IMDB rate:
7.8
Director:
Bruce Robinson
Awards:
1 win
Details
Country: UK
Release Date: 1987-06-19
Filming Locations: M25 Motorway, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Earnings
Gross: $1,544,889 (USA)£565,112 (UK)
Cast
Actor
Character
Richard E. Grant
Richard E. Grant
Withnail & I
Paul McGann
& I /
Richard Griffiths
Monty
Ralph Brown
Danny
Michael Elphick
Jake
Daragh O'Malley
Irishman
Michael Wardle
Isaac Parkin
Una Brandon-Jones
Mrs. Parkin
Noel Johnson
General
Irene Sutcliffe
Waitress
Llewellyn Rees
Tea Shop Proprietor
Robert Oates
Policeman 1
Anthony Wise
Policeman 2
Eddie Tagoe
Presuming Ed
Bruce Robinson
Double for various actors in distant shots (uncredited)
Fred Wood
Man In Cafe (uncredited)
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Trivia
Ralph Brown turned up for his audition dressed up like the Danny described in the script, with purple hair and painted fingernails. The casting director Mary Selway and director Bruce Robinson found him frightening but also hilarious. Because of his extra mile, he got the part.
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Despite Paul McGann's speculation on the DVD commentary that Withnail might have gone to Stowe, both he and Uncle Monty are supposed to be old boys of another public school: Harrow. The first hint of this is the print of Harrow hanging up in the Camden flat (it's the one of the redbrick building just next to the door frame leading to the kitchen), but the real clincher is when later, at Monty's house, Withnail lies that Marwood went to "the other place", to which Monty replies, "Oh, you went to Eton!" Members of Eton and Harrow often refer to pupils of the other in this manner.
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In the scene where they set off for Penrith, in the shot where the Jaguar drives away towards a railway bridge after Marwood flips the shades down on his glasses, Bruce Robinson's rare Aston Martin DB4 convertible can be seen parked in the background on the right hand side immediately before the bridge. This car also appears in the Bagleys' garage in How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
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Goofs
When Marwood is in the bath shaving (just before Withnail arrives with his saveloy and chips), you can clearly see that below the shaving foam he is in fact already clean shaven.
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When the letter is delivered to the cottage, Withnail picks it up from the table to read it. In the following shot, he is holding the envelope at the back of the letter which wasn't in his hands in the previous shot.
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When Monty drives Withnail and "I" into Penrith the radish is on his left lapel. When they arrive in Penrith a few minutes later, the radish has mysteriously moved to his right lapel.
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Quotes
Withnail: [looking at the kitchen sink overflowing with dirty dishes] Oh, Christ almighty. Sinew in nicotine base. Keep back, keep back! The entire sink's gone rotten. I don't know what's in here.
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Danny: You're looking very beautiful, man. Have you been away? Saint Peter preached the epistles to the apostles looking like that.
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Withnail: Are you the farmer?
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Photos from cast
Richard E. Grant
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