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B+ |
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B |
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B- |
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B- |
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Withnail and I and my review
by TonyM (movies profile)
Feb 25, 2008
One of those rarest of things a great British movie; especially shot in colour "Withnail and I" . Written by Bruce Robinson & loosely based on his experiences in the late sixties while waiting a break in the movie business.Richard E. Grant plays the lead Withnail and "I" is played by Paul McGann, it catches the early seventies perfectly.I don't usually like those buddy movies but it is the characters that hook you with this film. Withnail may be fictional but Grant seemed to breath life into him like a sex mad loner blowing up a latex woman after 15 years on a desert island and the doll washes up on the shore.I may be thinking about a decade later but I can remember when I was in my early twenties witnessing daft drinking competitions and taking part in a few drug smoking competitions e.g. who can role the longest spliff. the drinking of the lighter fuel was a bit too far for my mates, there again a few of them disappeared towards the end of that heavy drinking and drug taking period. The pair going on holiday to Uncle Monty's (played superbly by Richard Griffiths) country house and having McGann having to run away from the randy Monty; while they are in the country trying to catch/kill a fish with a double-barrelled shotgun,hilarious.where would the British film industry had gone in the seventies and eighties if it hadn't had HandMade Films to turn to??? A mega film, a pure British movie and all the better for it. Please,please buy this DVD, it may have looked a bit cheap but wasn't that half the idea?? |
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