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Withnail and I

Bruce Robinson · 1987 CE · Film · English · Contemporary

At the fag-end of the 1960s two out-of-work actors flee their squalid Camden flat for a holiday in a rain-lashed Lake District cottage they are hopelessly unequipped to inhabit. Robinson drew the script from his own lean years, and it has become the definitive British cult comedy of failure and friendship.

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Attributes

Genre
TragicomedyComedy
Theme
Isolation & AlienationFellowshipMemory & Time
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Anti-HeroAlly / CompanionWise Fool
Plot structure
Voyage and Return
Symbol / motif
RainThe House
Conflict
vs Selfvs Nature
Mode / tone
ComicElegiac
Culture / tradition
English

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