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Naked Lunch

Exterminate all rational thought.

Movie
1991
R
1h 55m

Directed by David Cronenberg

Crime
Drama

7.0

TMDB audience rating
7.0 out of 10 from 1,282 votes

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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.

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Cast and crew

Peter WellerBill Lee
Judy DavisJoan Frost
Ian HolmTom Frost
Julian SandsYves Cloquet
Roy ScheiderDr. Benway
Monique MercureFadela
Nicholas CampbellHank
Michael ZelnikerMartin
Robert A. SilvermanHans
Joseph ScorenKiki
Peter BoretskiCreature Voices / Exterminator #2
Yuval DanielHafid
John FriesenHauser
Sean McCannO'Brien
Howard JeromeA.J. Cohen
Michael CaruanaPawnbroker
Kurt ReisExterminator #1
Louis FerreiraExterminator #3

Director: David Cronenberg
Writer: William S. Burroughs and David Cronenberg
Music: Howard Shore and Ornette Coleman
Cinematography: Peter Suschitzky