WITHNAIL & I (1987) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Bruce Robinson
Richard E. Grant, Paul McCann, Richard Griffiths
Ralph Brown, Michael Elphick, Michael Wardle
A desperately funny lowlife comedy about two young out-of-work actors sharing a run-down flat, living in squalor, scrounging for food and spending all their money on booze. (Think back hard enough, and at some point we've probably all known somebody who lived like that.) Grant, who in real life doesn't drink, acts drunk with uncanny conviction, and Brown's a scream as a functionally zoned-out drug dealer. This has picked up a cult following in Britain, where some fans can mimic every line. Trying to match its lead characters drink-for-drink while watching it is not recommended.
Richard Griffiths
(1947-2013)
