Withnail and I

Withnail and I portrays the last throes of an eccentric friendship during the final days of the sixties. Withnail (Richard E Grant) and I (Paul McGann) are two young would-be actors who wake up one morning to find only 90 days left in the decade. Bound together by poverty and dreams of stardom, they share a flat of indescribable squalor and live on a diet of booze, pills and grass. The two friends decide to spend a soul-cleansing weekend in the country in a primitive cottage borrowed from Withnail's eccentric Uncle Monty. From the start things go horribly wrong and there dreams of an idyllic retreat rapidly degenerate into a hilarious nightmare!