Naked Lunch

"EXterMINate ALL RatIONAL ThoughT."

Apr 24 1992 R 1h 55m
Drama

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.

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Plot

Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in North African port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books.

Written by

William S. Burroughs, David Cronenberg

Directed by

David Cronenberg

Cast

Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm

Crew

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Production Countries

United Kingdom, Japan, Canada

Production Companies

Ontario Film Development Corporation, Pierson, Heldring & Pierson N.V., Téléfilm Canada, Recorded Picture Company, Naked Lunch Productions, Film Trustees Ltd., Nippon Film Development and Finance

Languages

English

Awards

13 wins & 17 nominations total

Trailers
Naked Lunch Trailer
Original Trailer
Teasers
Official Trailer
Featurettes
Peter Weller on NAKED LUNCH
Scores
# of Votes
60,528
Average Rating
6.9 out of 10
Metascore
67
Popularity
NA