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Withnail and I. Withnail and I is a 1987 British black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson. Loosely based on Robinson's life in London in the late 1960s, the plot follows two unemployed actors, Withnail and "I" (portrayed by Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann, respectively) who share a flat in Camden Town in 1969.
Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and novelist. He wrote and directed Withnail and I (1987), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the late 1960s, which drew on his experiences as a struggling actor, living in poverty in Camden Town. [1] He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best ...
Box office. $418,053. How to Get Ahead in Advertising is a 1989 British black comedy fantasy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson, and starring Richard E. Grant and Rachel Ward. The title is a pun and can be literally taken as "How to Get a Head in Advertising." In the film, an advertising executive has a nervous breakdown and finds ...
FLASHBACKS: The boozy British comedy classic was produced by Beatle George Harrison and made stars out of Richard E Grant and Paul McGann, but its initial cinema release went almost unnoticed.
Date premiered. 3 May 2024. Place premiered. Birmingham Repertory Theatre. Genre. Comedy. Setting. London, 1969. Withnail and I is a play by Bruce Robinson, based on the 1987 film of the same name also by Robinson.
Robinson has also stated that MacKerrell was the funniest person he has ever met. MacKerrel kept a diary, in which he recorded details of his life in Camden Town: an entry in the volumes for 1974-1975 records, "After a pint, I read and corrected more of Withnail and I and when [Robinson] came back we opened the bottle of Pouilly-Fuissé which L ...
Charles Sturridge, who directed Brideshead Revisited for TV, said, "you speak English like someone from the 1950s." [16] Grant at the 2007 BAFTA Awards. Grant's first film role was the perpetually inebriated title character in the cult classic Withnail and I (1987). Following this, he started appearing in Hollywood films, taking on a range of ...
Ghost Story. (1974 film) Ghost Story (also known as Madhouse Mansion and Asylum of Blood) is a 1974 British mystery film directed by Stephen Weeks and starring Marianne Faithfull, Leigh Lawson, Larry Dann and Anthony Bate. [1][2] Although set in England, the film was almost entirely shot on location in India, much of it at Bangalore Palace ...