Two out-of-work actors — the anxious, luckless Marwood (Paul McGann) and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail (Richard E. Grant) — 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 (Richard Griffiths), they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain. Commissioned by Mike T. (8/6/23)

Release date: June 19, 1987 (USA)
Director: Bruce Robinson
Screenplay: Bruce Robinson
Distributed by: Handmade Films
Box office: $1.7 million
Music by: David Dundas; Rick Wentworth