# Dopers, name this movie?  (Limited info...characters mostly)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 30, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-name-this-movie-limited-info-characters-mostly/96144 "2001-11-30T16:43:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-name-this-movie-limited-info-characters-mostly/96144/1 "2001-11-30T16:43:31Z")

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Danny, a drug dealer  
Parkin, a farmer  
Jake, a poacher

And a quote:

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> “If you do something else to your brain, you will make it cool…Why do you take one drug and not another? – That’s politics, innit?”

Help!

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**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-name-this-movie-limited-info-characters-mostly/96144/2 "2001-11-30T16:52:38Z")

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A very good film if I may say so at least

[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094336](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0094336)  
Personally my fave line was

Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, and for once I’m inclined to believe Withnail is right. We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.

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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-name-this-movie-limited-info-characters-mostly/96144/3 "2001-11-30T16:55:49Z")

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[Monty] As a youth I used to weep in butchers shops[/Monty]

Great film.

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-name-this-movie-limited-info-characters-mostly/96144/4 "2001-11-30T16:58:10Z")

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[Don’t get uptight with me, man. Because if you do I’ll have to give you a dose of medicine and if I spike you you’ll know you’ve been spoken to.](http://www.cia.com.au/ranash/withnail/script.htm)