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Withnail And I 107 minutes, UK (1987), 15
(5.0)
Rating: 5.0 Stars
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Withnail And I

"We just ran out of wine. What are we gonna do about it?" Two unemployed actors go on holiday by mistake, in this classic British comedy

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Withnail And I: "Withnail And I touches a chord in people" says Ralph Brown, aka Danny the Dealer. "It makes people feel sad while making them laugh." It couldn't have been otherwise: for a so-called 'comedy', Withnail (and just about everybody connected with it) has been on the end of some of the unfunniest treatment imaginable.

Take its troubled creator Bruce Robinson...
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