Movie·1991·1h 55m
Naked Lunch
Exterminate all rational thought.
Country
Canada
Language
Arabic
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// overview
The Story
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.
Producer
Jeremy Thomas
Cinematography
Peter Suschitzky
Music
Howard Shore
Editor
Ronald Sanders
Themes
Production House
Audience Score
1,212 votes
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// cast
Cast
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
John Friesen
Hauser
Sean McCann
O'Brien
Howard Jerome
A.J. Cohen
Michael Caruana
Pawnbroker
Kurt Reis
Exterminator #1
Louis Ferreira
Exterminator #3
// crew
Crew
David Cronenberg
Director, Writer
Peter Suschitzky
Director of Photography
Howard Shore
Original Music Composer
Jeremy Thomas
Producer
Ornette Coleman
Original Music Composer
Ronald Sanders
Editor
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