From NetFlix:

Two unemployed actors — Withnail (Richard E. Grant) and
Marwood (Paul McGann) — take a trip to the British countryside
in 1969. But instead of rejuvenation, they experience a lack of
food, an abundance of rain and a plethora of alcohol. Their host,
Withnail’s gay Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths), displays a love
for life and a lust for Marwood. This classic art-house comedy
won an Evening Standard British Film Award.

Daughter Kate and boyfriend Nigel (both movie fans) are with us for Christmas. I asked Nigel
to send me a list of films we could all watch together. His first pick was a British cult film
“Withnail and I” whose atmosphere is the alcohol and drug excesses of the sixties. Nigel had
never seen the film. In the film Withnail drinks just about everything and Nigel tells me that
the cult followers as a challenge try to drink everything that Whitnail drinks. Lighter fluid
anyone ?

This is one of the most unusual films I have ever seen. You almost certainly cannot afford
the time to watch this film unless you are retired with a lot of time on your hands or just plain
bored to death. But I don’t regret watching this strange “happening”.

You are warned.