R19911h 55mCrimeDrama
Naked Lunch
Exterminate all rational thought.
69Pop Score9 of 9 sources
Critics and audiences agreeBlank-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.
- Director, Writer
- David Cronenberg
- Novel
- William S. Burroughs
- Music
- Howard Shore
- Music
- Ornette Coleman
- Cinematography
- Peter Suschitzky
- Editor
- Ronald Sanders
Ratings
Pop Score weighs critics and audiences equally, and trusts each source in proportion to how many votes or reviews back it.
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Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 27 Dec 1991
- Original language
- English
