It took 30 years, but women in the movies are finally being allowed to be as debauched as the men

Just as was the case with ‘Withnail and I’, the lead characters in ‘Animals’ are not bad people, but they make bad decisions, say the wrong things, steal, cheat and get too wasted too often

“We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here, and we want them now!”

So goes the raucous demand of Richard E Grant’s eponymous toff in 1987’s Withnail and I.

Laura and Tyler, the hedonistic heroines of Animals, would be perfectly happy with the house white – but the same themes run through that film: co-dependency; self-destruction; friendship; nihilism. It’s taken 30 years, but women are finally being allowed to be as messy and debauched as the men.