Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch (1991)

Exterminate all rational thought.

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.

Date of release
1991-12-27
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1269)
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
Crime, Drama
Director
David Cronenberg

Casting

  • Peter Weller — Bill Lee
  • Judy Davis — Joan Frost
  • Ian Holm — Tom Frost
  • Julian Sands — Yves Cloquet
  • Roy Scheider — Dr. Benway
  • Monique Mercure — Fadela
  • Nicholas Campbell — Hank
  • Michael Zelniker — Martin
  • Robert A. Silverman — Hans
  • Joseph Scoren — Kiki
  • Peter Boretski — Creature Voices / Exterminator #2
  • Yuval Daniel — Hafid

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