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Directed by Bruce Robinson .
With Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths.
UK, 1987, 35mm, color, 107 min.
With Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths.
UK, 1987, 35mm, color, 107 min.
Two out of work actors (Grant and McGann) escape from their squalid, dull London flat to the countryside in the hopes of finding some creative inspiration. But their dreams of an idyllic respite are quickly dashed thanks to constant rain, no food and a leering uncle (Griffiths) who arrives unannounced. Set at the end of the 1960s, this semi-autobiographical work from director Bruce Robinson drew on his own hazy experiences as an out-of-work thespian and gained cult status thanks in part to a boozy, dyspeptic performance from Grant.
