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Withnail and I

Index Withnail and I

Withnail and I is a 1987 British black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson. [1]

92 relations: A Whiter Shade of Pale, Al Bowlly, Alcohol intoxication, Alcoholism, All Along the Watchtower, Bampton, Cumbria, Bayswater, BBC, Benvolio, BFI Top 100 British films, Bill Nighy, Black comedy, British Board of Film Classification, British Film Institute, Bruce Robinson, Camden Town, Channel 4, Charlie Kunz, Chelsea, London, Child sexual abuse, Cinema of the United Kingdom, Cineplex Odeon Films, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daragh O'Malley, Denis O'Brien (producer), Driving under the influence, Eddie Tagoe, Eton College, Farce, Franco Zeffirelli, Franz Schubert, George Harrison, Glebe Place, Grammar school, HandMade Films, Hangover, Haweswater Reservoir, Home counties, Illegal drug trade, Jimi Hendrix, Joint (cannabis), Kenneth Branagh, King Curtis, Ladbroke Grove, Lake District, Les Pearson, Live at Fillmore West, Lord David Dundas, Manchester, Mental Floss, ..., Michael Elphick, Milton Keynes, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Noel Johnson, Paddington, Paul Heller, Paul McGann, Penrith, Cumbria, Ralph Brown, Ralph Steadman, Regent's Park, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths, Rick Wentworth, Rickmansworth, Roger Ebert, Romeo and Juliet (1968 film), Rotten Tomatoes, Scouse, Sexual harassment, Shap, Sleddale Hall, Stony Stratford, Teetotalism, The Beatles, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The New Zealand Herald, The Observer, The Smiths, Time Out (magazine), Total Film, Tragicomedy, UK Film Council, Vivian MacKerrell, Voodoo Child (Slight Return), Wellington boot, West House, Chelsea, Westbourne Green, What a piece of work is a man, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, 1987 in film. Expand index (42 more) »

A Whiter Shade of Pale

"A Whiter Shade of Pale" is the debut single by the British rock band Procol Harum, released 12 May 1967.

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Al Bowlly

Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) was a Mozambican-born South African/British singer, songwriter, composer and band leader, who became a popular jazz crooner during the British dance band era of the 1930s and later worked in the United States.

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Alcohol intoxication

Alcohol intoxication, also known as drunkenness or alcohol poisoning, is negative behavior and physical effects due to the recent drinking of ethanol (alcohol).

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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All Along the Watchtower

"All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.

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Bampton, Cumbria

Bampton is a village and civil parish in the Eden District of Cumbria, England, on the edge of the Lake District National Park.

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Bayswater

Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in central London.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Benvolio

Benvolio is a fictional character in Shakespeare's drama Romeo and Juliet.

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BFI Top 100 British films

In 1999 the British Film Institute surveyed 1,000 people from the world of British film and television to produce the BFI 100 list of the greatest British films of the 20th century.

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Bill Nighy

William Francis Nighy OBE (born 12 December 1949) is an English actor and voice artist.

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Black comedy

Black comedy, also known as dark comedy or gallows humor, is a comic style that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discuss.

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British Board of Film Classification

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and charitable organisation which promotes and preserves filmmaking and television in the United Kingdom.

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Bruce Robinson

Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor.

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Camden Town

Camden Town, often shortened to Camden (a term also used for the entire borough), is a district of north west London, England, located north of Charing Cross (walking distance).

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Charlie Kunz

Charles Leonard "Charlie" Kunz (August 18, 1896 – March 16, 1958) was an American-born British musician popular during the British dance band era.

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Chelsea, London

Chelsea is an affluent area of South West London, bounded to the south by the River Thames.

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Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse, also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.

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Cinema of the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has had a significant film industry for over a century.

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Cineplex Odeon Films

Cineplex Odeon Films (also known as Cineplex Odeon Pictures and Cineplex-Odeon Films) was the film distribution unit of the Canadian cinema chain Cineplex Odeon Corporation.

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Daniel Day-Lewis

Sir Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis (born 29 April 1957) is a retired English actor who holds both British and Irish citizenship.

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Daragh O'Malley

Daragh O'Malley (born 25 May 1954) is an Irish actor born in Limerick, Ireland on May 25th 1954.

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Denis O'Brien (producer)

Denis O'Brien was an American attorney, and was the business manager of George Harrison of The Beatles for some years.

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Driving under the influence

Driving under the influence (DUI), driving while impaired/driving while intoxicated (DWI), operating while intoxicated (OWI), or drink-driving (UK) is currently the crime or offense of driving or operating a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol or other drugs (including recreational drugs and those prescribed by physicians), to a level that renders the driver incapable of operating a motor vehicle safely.

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Eddie Tagoe

Eddie Tagoe is a Ghanaian actor best known in the U.K. for playing "Presuming Ed" in the 1987 film production of Withnail and I, a role which he resumed in 2000 in a stage production of the same work.

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Eton College

Eton College is an English independent boarding school for boys in Eton, Berkshire, near Windsor.

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Farce

In theatre, a farce is a comedy that aims at entertaining the audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, and thus improbable.

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Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli, KBE Grande Ufficiale OMRI (born 12 February 1923) is an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television.

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Franz Schubert

Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.

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George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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Glebe Place

Glebe Place is a street in Chelsea, London.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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HandMade Films

HandMade Films is a British film production and distribution company.

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Hangover

A hangover is the experience of various unpleasant physiological and psychological effects following the consumption of alcohol, such as wine, beer and distilled spirits.

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Haweswater Reservoir

Haweswater is a reservoir in the English Lake District, built in the valley of Mardale in the county of Cumbria.

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Home counties

The home counties are the counties of England that surround London (although several of them do not border it).

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Illegal drug trade

The illegal drug trade or drug trafficking is a global black market dedicated to the cultivation, manufacture, distribution and sale of drugs that are subject to drug prohibition laws.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Joint (cannabis)

A joint, spliff, jay, or doobie, is a rolled marijuana cigarette.

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Kenneth Branagh

Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December 1959) is a British actor, director, producer, and screenwriter from Belfast in Northern Ireland.

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King Curtis

Curtis Ousley (February 7, 1934 – August 13, 1971), who performed under the stage name King Curtis, was an American saxophonist known for rhythm and blues, rock and roll, soul, blues, funk and soul jazz.

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Ladbroke Grove

Ladbroke Grove is a road in west London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, running north–south between Harrow Road and Holland Park Avenue.

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England.

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Les Pearson

Leslie Pearson (birth unknown - death unknown), also known by the nickname of "Les", was a professional rugby league footballer of the 1930s.

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Live at Fillmore West

Live at Fillmore West is an album by King Curtis, released in 1971.

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Lord David Dundas

Lord David Paul Nicholas Dundas (born 2 June 1945) is an English musician and actor, known for his film and television scoring, having previously had chart success in the rock genre.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Mental Floss

Mental Floss (stylized mental_floss) is an American digital, print, and e-commerce media company focused on millennials.

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Michael Elphick

Michael John Elphick (19 September 1946 – 7 September 2002) was an English actor known in the UK for his trademark croaky voice and his work on British television, particularly his roles as the eponymous private investigator in the ITV series Boon and later Harry Slater in BBC's EastEnders.

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Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes, locally abbreviated to MK, is a large townAlthough Milton Keynes was specified to be a city in scale and the term "city" is used locally (inter alia to avoid confusion with its constituent towns), formally this title cannot be used.

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Monty Python's Flying Circus

Monty Python’s Flying Circus (known during the final series as just Monty Python) is a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python and broadcast by the BBC from 1969 to 1974.

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Noel Johnson

Noel Frank Johnson (28 December 1916 – 1 October 1999) was an English actor.

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Paddington

Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in central London.

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Paul Heller

Paul Heller (also known as Paul M. Heller) is a British-American film producer residing in Southern California.

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Paul McGann

Paul John McGann (born 14 November 1959) is an English actor.

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Penrith, Cumbria

Penrith is a market town and civil parish in the county of Cumbria, England.

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Ralph Brown

Ralph William John Brown (born 18 June 1957) is an English actor and writer, known for playing Danny the drug dealer in Withnail and I, the security guard Aaron (a.k.a. "85") in Alien 3, DJ Bob Silver in The Boat That Rocked, super-roadie Del Preston in Wayne's World 2, the pilot Ric Olié in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Henry Clinton in Turn: Washington's Spies.

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Ralph Steadman

Ralph Steadman (born 15 May 1936) is a Welsh illustrator best known for collaboration with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson, his close friend.

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Regent's Park

Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant (born Richard Grant Esterhuysen; 5 May 1957) is a Swazi-English actor, screenwriter, director and perfumier.

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Richard Griffiths

Richard Thomas Griffiths, OBE (31 July 1947 – 28 March 2013) was an English actor of film, television, and stage.

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Rick Wentworth

Rick Wentworth is a BAFTA-nominated film and TV composer, conductor, orchestrator and arranger.

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Rickmansworth

Rickmansworth is a small town in southwest Hertfordshire, England, approximately northwest of central London and inside the perimeter of the M25 motorway.

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Roger Ebert

Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author.

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Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)

Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 British-Italian romantic drama film based on the play of the same name (1591–1595) by William Shakespeare.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Scouse

Scouse (also, in academic sources, called Liverpool English or Merseyside English) is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and closely associated with the city of Liverpool.

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Sexual harassment

Sexual harassment is bullying or coercion of a sexual nature, or the unwelcome or inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favors.

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Shap

Shap is a linear village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Eden district, Cumbria, England.

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Sleddale Hall

Sleddale Hall is a farmhouse on the north side of the Wet Sleddale valley near Shap in Cumbria, England.

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Stony Stratford

Stony Stratford (often shortened to Stony) is a constituent town of Milton Keynes (in north Buckinghamshire, England) and is a civil parish with a town council within the Borough of Milton Keynes.

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Teetotalism

Teetotalism is the practice or promotion of complete personal abstinence from alcoholic beverages.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.

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Time Out (magazine)

Time Out is a British travel magazine published by Time Out Group.

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Total Film

Total Film is a British film magazine published 13 times a year (published monthly and a summer issue is added every year since issue 91, 2004 which is published between July and August issue) by Future Publishing.

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Tragicomedy

Tragicomedy is a literary genre that blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms.

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UK Film Council

The UK Film Council (UKFC) was a non-departmental public body set up in 2000 to develop and promote the film industry in the UK.

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Vivian MacKerrell

Vivian Alan James MacKerrell (23 May 1944 – 2 March 1995) was a British actor of the 1960s and 1970s.

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Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" is a song recorded by the Jimi Hendrix Experience in 1968 that appears as the final track on the Electric Ladyland album released that year.

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Wellington boot

The Wellington boot is a type of boot based upon leather Hessian boots.

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West House, Chelsea

West House is a Grade II* listed Queen Anne revival house at 35 Glebe Place, Chelsea, London.

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Westbourne Green

Westbourne Green is an area of Westbourne, London, the centre of the former hamlet of Westbourne, at the north-western corner of the City of Westminster.

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What a piece of work is a man

"What a piece of work is man!" is a phrase within a soliloquy by Hamlet in William Shakespeare's eponymous play.

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While My Guitar Gently Weeps

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1968 double album The Beatles (also known as "the White Album").

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1987 in film

The following is an overview of events in 1987 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released and notable deaths.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withnail_and_I

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