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Naked Lunch (1991)

Naked Lunch (1991)

Drama Crime

Exterminate all rational thought.

Release Date: 1991, December 27
Directors: David Cronenberg
Countries: Canada, United Kingdom
Production: Recorded Picture Company, Recorded Picture Company, Naked Lunch Productions, Naked Lunch Productions
Cast: Ian Holm, Roy Scheider, Julian Richings, Louis Ferreira, Peter Weller, Julian Sands, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren, Sean McCann, Nicholas Campbell, Judy Davis, Howard Jerome

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.

Keywords:

based on novel or book writer gay theme hallucination bug illegal drugs writing exterminator beat generation