Withnail & I

★★★★★ COMEDY DRAMA ⊲A brilliant hymn to the joys of a dissolute lifestyle by writer-director Bruce Robinson. Richard E Grant is the flamboyant Withnail who, along with the un-named ‘I’ (Paul Mcgann), is an out-of-work actor living in a squalid flat in London’s Camden Town in the late-1960s. The movie really gets rolling when the undynamic duo decide to spend a holiday at a remote farmhouse in Penrith, where they’re joined by the predatory Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths). Dir: Bruce Robinson 1986, 15, 110min