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Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch
★ 7.0/10•1991•1h 55m•R•Crime•Drama

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.

David Cronenberg · Director

David Cronenberg · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 55m
LanguageEN
Release DateDec 27, 1991
Budget$16,000,000
Revenue$2,641,357

Actors

Peter Weller

Peter Weller

Bill Lee

Judy Davis

Judy Davis

Joan Frost

Ian Holm

Ian Holm

Tom Frost

Julian Sands

Julian Sands

Yves Cloquet

Roy Scheider

Roy Scheider

Dr. Benway

Monique Mercure

Monique Mercure

Fadela

Nicholas Campbell

Nicholas Campbell

Hank

Michael Zelniker

Michael Zelniker

Martin

Robert A. Silverman

Robert A. Silverman

Hans

Joseph Scoren

Joseph Scoren

Kiki

Peter Boretski

Creature Voices / Exterminator #2

Yuval Daniel

Hafid

John Friesen

John Friesen

Hauser

Sean McCann

Sean McCann

O'Brien

Howard Jerome

Howard Jerome

A.J. Cohen

Michael Caruana

Michael Caruana

Pawnbroker

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