
About
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 torrentia...
Cast

Richard E. Grant
Withnail

Paul McGann
Marwood (I)

Richard Griffiths
Montague Withnail (Uncle Monty)

Michael Elphick
The Poacher

Ralph Brown
Danny the Dealer

Eddie Tagoe
Presuming Ed

Daragh O'Malley
Irishman

Una Brandon-Jones
Mrs Parkin

Michael Wardle
Isaac Parkin
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