Naked Lunch (1991)

US:: R Crime Drama

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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1991-12-27

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Keywords:

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FACTS

Runtime: 115 mins Budget: $16,000,000 Rating: 7.0 Tag Line: Exterminate all rational thought.

Cast

Ian Holm

Tom Frost

Judy Davis

Joan Frost

Julian Richings

Exterminator #4

Julian Sands

Yves Cloquet

Roy Scheider

Doctor Benway

Nicholas Campbell

Hank

Sean McCann

Anne's Father

Robert A. Silverman

Hans