DVD Review
Withnail and I
by Alexander Ives
Withnail and I tells the story of two out-of-work actors and roommates in England, circa 1969. They aren’t really actors so much as boozing druggies, or perhaps more accurately druggy boozers. Either way, they don’t do much acting and do do a lot of drinking and drugs. "I" is actually Marwood (identified only in the script as such) played by Paul McGann. He narrates the film. Withnail, played by Richard E. Grant, is the more eccentric of the two. While "I" is responsible, Withnail is the cowardly King of vice.