Withnail and I (1987 Future Cult Classic)

The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features our future cult classic pick, Bruce Robinson’s Withnail and I. Written and directed by Bruce Robinson and starring Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown, Withnail and I was inspired by Robinson’s own experiences as a young man in the 1960s.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/19/movies/film-withnail-and-i-a-british-60-s-comedy.html), Joel Siegel in the Chicago Reader (https://chicagoreader.com/film/two-english-guys/), and Hilary Mantel in The Spectator (http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/27th-february-1988/37/cinema).

Thanks to our guest Jon Towlson, author of 40 Cult Movies: From Alice, Sweet Alice to Zombies of Mora Tau. Check out Jon on Twitter at @systemshocks and purchase his book on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/40-Cult-Movies-Alice-Zombies/dp/B0CKLR41KW).

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