Withnail & I

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Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- 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, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

A thick layer of rain-soaked melancholy and frantic, booze-fueled wit clings to every frame of this aimless journey through the English countryside. These two starving actors drift through a haze of unwashed sweaters and failed ambitions with a comedic desperation that feels painfully real.

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