Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

7.0IMDb Score
Released:1991-12-27
Genre:Crime, Drama
Duration:115 min
Country:Canada, United Kingdom
Director:David Cronenberg
Actors:Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider
Production:Recorded Picture Company, Naked Lunch Productions

Overview:

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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