{"id":6519,"date":"2011-09-05T22:03:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T02:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=6519"},"modified":"2015-10-20T16:24:48","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T21:24:48","slug":"withnail-and-i-1987-bruce-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/6519","title":{"rendered":"Withnail and I (1987, Bruce Robinson)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of those cult movies that you have to see over and over, or drunk, or high, or with the right friends, or at the right time in your life.  I met none of the qualifictions, but sill enjoyed it quite a lot.  Seems it was the <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/527\">Big Lebowski<\/a><\/em> of its time, with the massively devoted fanbase.  And I can see that now, having watched the half-hour bonus feature on the DVD, playing key scenes and lines again, giving me a second look.  Certainly the performances and dialogue (when I could make it out) are absurdly good, which probably makes this an endlessly rewatchable movie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/withnail1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The key performers are Richard E. &#8220;<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/1976\">Kafka<\/a>&#8221; Grant and Paul McGann (<em>Alien 3<\/em>, Ken Russell&#8217;s <em>The Rainbow<\/em>) as unemployed actor roommates who go on holiday, Richard Griffiths (<a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2056\">Harry Potter<\/a>&#8216;s uncle) as Grant&#8217;s homosexual relative who lends them his cottage then shows up with designs on McGann, and Ralph Brown (played a stoner again in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/2972\">The Boat That Rocked<\/a><\/em>, also in <em>The Hit<\/em>) as the ultimate pothead, a dubious friend of the two leads.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/withnail2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Robinson dropped off the face of the earh after the early 90&#8217;s, but is reportedly back with Johnny Depp in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8439\">The Rum Diary<\/a><\/em> &#8211; from working with Ralph Steadman on <em>Withnail<\/em> to adapting Hunter S. Thompson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of those cult movies that you have to see over and over, or drunk, or high, or with the right friends, or at the right time in your life. I met none of the qualifictions, but sill enjoyed it quite a lot. Seems it was the Big Lebowski of its time, with the massively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,102,1175,13,1388],"class_list":["post-6519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-britain","tag-bruce-robinson","tag-criterion","tag-richard-e-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6519"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10635,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6519\/revisions\/10635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}