Film

Naked Lunch

1991 · 1h 55m · Crime · Drama

Exterminate all rational thought.

IMDb

6.9

Rotten Tomatoes

73%

Metacritic

67

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.

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

• David CronenbergDirector · Writer
• William S. BurroughsNovel
• Jeremy ThomasProducer
• Peter SuschitzkyDirector of Photography
• Howard ShoreOriginal Music Composer
• Ornette ColemanOriginal Music Composer
• Ronald SandersEditor
• Deirdre BowenCasting

Original TrailerOfficial Trailer

Release date

December 27, 1991

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 55m

Rated

R

Budget

$16,000,000

Revenue

$2,641,357

Genres

Crime, Drama

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