Withnail & I

Synopsis: Feature film. Black comedy about two down-on-their-luck actors holidaying in the Lake District in 1969. Richard Griffiths, as Withnail’s gay uncle, frequently quotes from Hamlet, and the film ends poignantly with Richard E. Grant, standing in the rain in Regent’s Park, having just said goodbye to McGann, performing Hamlet’s speech ‘I have of late (but wherefore I know not) lost all my mirth’ (II ii) to the wolves. The closing line ‘no, nor woman neither’ is repeated.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 1986
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)