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.

• DirectorBruce Robinson
• Release19 June 1987
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration1h 48m
• Budget?
• Revenue$1,544,889
• Rate
  

  7.25
  596 reviews
• Productions

  Handmade Films, Cineplex-Odeon Films