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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The shape of the islands in the background spells out 42, and there are 42 coloured balls. The 42 Puzzle is a game devised by Douglas Adams in 1994 for the United States series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books. The puzzle is an illustration consisting of 42 multi-coloured balls, in 7 columns and 6 rows.
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 ...
Full list. Website. www.richard-e-grant.com. Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; [2][3] 5 May 1957) is a Swaziland -born English actor [4][5][6] and presenter. [1] He made his film debut as Withnail in the comedy Withnail and I (1987). Grant received critical acclaim for his role as Jack Hock in Marielle Heller 's drama film Can ...
In a lecture on J. G. Ballard with John Gray, Will Self represented Withnail and I director Bruce Robinson's interpretation of the story which has "the unconscious, the car park of the building, penetrating the ego in the conquest of the super ego in the top of the building." He then stated that Ballard would have hated that interpretation ...