Naked Lunch (1991)

Exterminate all rational thought.

Movie · Crime, Drama · 1h 55m · Rated 7.0/10 on TMDB · Released December 27, 1991

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.

Directed by 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 Dr. Benway
• Monique Mercure as Fadela
• Nicholas Campbell as Hank
• Michael Zelniker as Martin
• Robert A. Silverman as Hans
• Joseph Scoren as Kiki
• Peter Boretski as Creature Voices / Exterminator #2
• Yuval Daniel as Hafid

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