Withnail and I

Withnail and I follows two broke, unemployed actors sharing a squalid Camden flat who impulsively flee to a rundown Lake District cottage for a holiday that goes spectacularly wrong. Fuelled by alcohol, paranoia, and desperation, the film is a darkly comic meditation on the end of the 1960s dream and the bittersweet nature of friendship. Director Bruce Robinson's semi-autobiographical masterpiece has since become one of Britain's most beloved cult films.

• Richard E. Grant is actually a teetotaller in real life.
• Bruce Robinson based Withnail on his real flatmate Vivian MacKerrell.
• The film was shot in just seven weeks on a low budget.
• Paul McGann nearly lost the role due to a scheduling conflict.
• The cottage scenes were filmed in the Lake District, England.

• We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now.
• I have come on holiday by mistake.
• We've gone on holiday by mistake.
• I feel unusual.
• Monty, you terrible c**t.