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Release Date
• USA: Dec 27, 1991
DVD Release Date
• R1: Nov 11, 2003
• R2: 21 Jun 2004
MPAA Rating
R
Running Time
1 hour, 55 minutes
Country Canada, UK, Japan
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• Naked Lunch
• David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch (1991)
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Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Gay/Lesbian, Surreal, Drugs, Mutants, Disturbing, Futuristic, Cult Classic, Erotic, Experimental, Bugs, Doctor, Infidelity, Aliens, Murder, Fantasy
Tagline: David Cronenberg and William S. Burroughs invite you to lunch.
Plot: The dry wit of writer William S. Burroughs transfers surprisingly well to the screen. This partially biographical celluloid interpretation of his book shows Burroughs's daring and delirium as one of the experimental beat writers (with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg) who emerged in the late 1950s. In the lead role, Peter Weller does a dead-on Burroughs impression, and the film follows a bizarre logic and has a dark, rich look that makes it one of director David Cronenberg's more satisfying works. Bill Lee (Weller) is a pest-control man who would rather be a writer, and he is seeking escape from his troubled existence. After killing his wife, he flees to Interzone, a hallucinatory version of Tangiers (the location where Burroughs penned the book). There he finds that reality and fantasy have merged in a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by half-alien, half-insect creatures and odd humans. And finally, in this altered state, Lee can become a writer. Like other Cronenberg films, NAKED LUNCH is a bit squishy; it is full of pervasive biological dread. And this film is not exactly faithful to the novel. Instead, Cronenberg provides it with a neat framework that begins and ends with Lee shooting his wife Joan (Judy Davis) during a botched William Tell routine, just as Burroughs did
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| Written by |
David Cronenberg
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 | Ian Holm
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Fifth Element |
 | Julian Sands
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 | Judy Davis
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Howard Shore
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Silence of the Lambs |
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