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Naked Lunch (1991)
Directed by David Cronenberg
“Exterminate all rational thought.”
Crime, Drama · 1h 55m
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
Cast
Peter Weller
Judy Davis
Ian Holm
Julian Sands
Roy Scheider
Monique Mercure
Nicholas Campbell
Michael Zelniker
Robert A. Silverman
Joseph Scoren
Crew
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Writer
- David Cronenberg
- Novel
- William S. Burroughs
- Director of Photography
- Peter Suschitzky
- Original Music Composer
- Howard Shore, Ornette Coleman
- Editor
- Ronald Sanders
- Producer
- Jeremy Thomas
Details
- Release date
- 1991-12-27
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, English
- Countries
- Canada, United Kingdom
- Production
- Recorded Picture Company, Naked Lunch Productions
- Budget
- $16,000,000
- Box office
- $2,641,357