Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

115 mins | Drama, Crime | Dec. 27, 1991

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.

Naked Lunch

115 mins | Drama, Crime | Dec. 27, 1991

Naked Lunch
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.
IMDb rating 6.9
Producers Téléfilm Canada, Film Trustees Ltd., Naked Lunch Productions, Recorded Picture Company, Ontario Film Development Corporation, Nippon Film Development and Finance, Pierson, Heldring & Pierson N.V.
Original title Naked Lunch
Directors David Cronenberg
Writers William S. Burroughs, David Cronenberg

Cast

Peter Weller

as Bill Lee

Judy Davis

as Joan Frost

Ian Holm

as Tom Frost

Julian Sands

as Yves Cloquet

Roy Scheider

as Doctor Benway

Monique Mercure

as Fadela

Michael Zelniker

as Martin

Louis Ferreira

as Exterminator #3

Joseph Scoren

as Kiki

Julian Richings

as Exterminator #4

Peter Boretski

as Creature Voices / Exterminator #2

Yuval Daniel

as Hafid

John Friesen

as Hauser

Sean McCann

as O'Brien

Howard Jerome

as A.J. Cohen

Michael Caruana

as Pawnbroker

Kurt Reis

as Exterminator #1