Withnail & I / How to Get Ahead in Advertising - 2-Disc Set

Withnail & I / How to Get Ahead in Advertising - 2-Disc Set (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Linear PCM )
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
107 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1987 - 1989 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Bruce Robinson

Written By:
Bruce Robinson

Actors:
Richard E. Grant ..... Denis Dimbleby Bagley
Rachel Ward ..... Julia Bagley
Richard Wilson ..... John Bristol, Bagley's Boss
Jacqueline Tong ..... Penny Wheelstock
John Shrapnel ..... Psychiatrist
Susan Wooldridge ..... Monica
Hugh Armstrong ..... Harry Wax
Mick Ford ..... Richard
Jacqueline Pearce ..... Maud
Christopher Simon ..... Waiter
Gino Melvazzi ..... Waiter
Victor Lucas ..... Tweedy Man
Dawn Keeler ..... Tweedy Woman
Kerryann White ..... Girl in Elevator (as Kerry Ann White)
Vivienne McKone ..... Sullivan Bristol Receptionist
Richard E. Grant ..... Withnail
Paul McGann ..... & I / Marwood
Richard Griffiths ..... Monty
Ralph Brown ..... Danny
Michael Elphick ..... Jake
Daragh O'Malley ..... Irishman
Michael Wardle ..... Isaac Parkin
Una Brandon-Jones ..... Mrs. Parkin
Noel Johnson ..... General
Irene Sutcliffe ..... Waitress
Llewellyn Rees ..... Tea Shop Proprietor
Robert Oates ..... Policeman 1
Anthony Wise ..... Policeman 2
Eddie Tagoe ..... Presuming Ed

Synopsis:

Double feature collection from writer-director Bruce Robinson. Robinson's celebrated cult comedy 'Withnail and I' (1986) stars Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann. It's the end of the 1960s and two out-of-work actors, Withnail (Grant) and 'I' (McGann), subsist on a diet of booze, drugs and fags in their revolting Camden flat. In order to escape the depressing nexus of visits from their dealer and the months of untouched washing-up, they travel to the country, with the intention of getting some R and R at a cottage owned by Withnail's uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths). However, things do not exactly go as planned, Withnail being particularly unsuited to the quiet social mores of country people. The pair's friendship starts to become sorely tested amid the vicissitudes of their 'holiday'. More ominously, uncle Monty appears in person seemingly with something of an eye for 'I'. In 'How to Get Ahead in Advertising' (1988) Grant plays a successful advertising executive who cracks up while trying to think of a campaign for a new spot cream. He then develops a spot himself, which soon enough grows a face and begins talking to him. Is he losing his mind?

Withnail & I (1987)
London 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's country cottage. But when they get there, it rains non-stop, there's no food, and their basic survival skills turn out to be somewhat limited. Matters are not helped by the arrival of Uncle Monty, who shows an uncomfortably keen interest in Marwood...
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his relationship with his wife, his friends and his boss, but also his own body - graphically demonstrated when he grows a large stress-related boil on his shoulder. But when the boil grows eyes and a mouth and starts talking, Bagley really begins to think he's lost his mind. But has he?

Withnail & I (1987)
London: The Sixties. Two down-on-their-luck actors (Withnail and Marwood) find solace in drink and other substances. Seeking respite from their uneventful lives they escape up north to Penrith to Withnail's uncle's stone cottage. Faced with no modern conveniences, a bunch of oddball locals, and a surprise visit from an amorous 'Uncle Monty', their wits are tested, along with their friendship.
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
An advertising agent has to design a new advertising campaign for pimple cream. This is so stressful that a boil appears on his neck and eventually takes him over.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 26 April, 2015.