Naked Lunch overview
Overall Rating
Total Ratings: 1
Synopsis:
This cinematic/literary hybrid fuses motifs from Beat writer William S. Burroughs's novel of the same name with elements of the author's biography and plenty of the cerebral alienation and biomorphic special effects fans of creepy cult director David Cronenberg have come to expect. Bill Lee (Peter Weller) wants to write, but he exterminates bugs to pay the bills. His wife, Joan (Judy Davis), becomes addicted to Bill's bug powder dust, and soon he joins her in a world of unorthodox hallucinogens; he visits the kindly yet sinister Dr. Benway (Roy Scheider) and walks away with his first dose of the black meat -- a narcotic made from the flesh of the giant aquatic Brazilian centipede.
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Movie Details:
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Year: 1991
- Run Time: 117 minutes
- Country: Canada, UK
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R (for heavy drug content, bizarre eroticism, and language)
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Avant-garde / Experimental
- Filmed in: Color
