Withnail & I (1987)

Una Brandon-Jones: Mrs. Parkin

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• [Marwood knocks on the door of a farmhouse. An old woman with a clunky hearing aid pinned to her apron opens the door] 

  Mrs. Parkin : What do you want?

  Marwood : I'm a friend of Montague Withnail's. He's lent us his cottage. I wondered if you could sell us some food. Eggs and things.

  [the woman just squints at him] 

  Marwood : What about wood and coal?

  [she still doesn't answer. He leans up close to her, speaking into to her hearing aid] 

  Marwood : I'm not from London, you know.

  Mrs. Parkin : I don't care where you come from!

  [she slams the door in his face] 

  Marwood : [voiceover]  Not the attitude I'd been given to expect from the H.E. Bates novel I'd read. I thought they'd all be out the back, drinking cider and discussing butter. Clearly a myth. Evidently country people are no more receptive to strangers than city-dwellers.