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Release Date: 1991

Cast: Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren, Peter Weller, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker, Roy Scheider, Julian Sands, Judy Davis, Ian Holm

Categories: Movies, Erotic Drama, Psychological Thriller, Lgbt, Indie, Fantasy, Avant-Garde, Comedy, Experimental Film, Mystery, Addiction Drama, Drama Film, Biography, Surrealism, Film Adaptation, Kafkaesque

Naked Lunch is the 1991 Canadian/British/Japanese film adaptation, directed by David Cronenberg, of William S. Burroughs' novel of the same name. Featuring Peter Weller, Ian Holm, Judy Davis, and Roy Scheider, the film is a co-production by film companies of Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan. William Lee (Peter Weller) is an exterminator who finds that his wife Joan is stealing his insecticide (pyrethrum) for recreational purposes. When Lee is arrested by the police, he believes he is hallucinating because of "bug powder" exposure. He believes he is a secret agent whose controller (a... MORE

Naked Lunch is the 1991 Canadian/British/Japanese film adaptation, directed by David Cronenberg, of William S. Burroughs' novel of the same name. Featuring Peter Weller, Ian Holm, Judy Davis, and Roy Scheider, the film is a co-production by film companies of Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan. William Lee (Peter Weller) is an exterminator who finds that his wife Joan is stealing his insecticide (pyrethrum) for recreational purposes. When Lee is arrested by the police, he believes he is hallucinating because of "bug powder" exposure. He believes he is a secret agent whose controller (a giant bug) assigns him the mission of killing his wife Joan (Judy Davis), who is an agent of an organization called Interzone Incorporated. Dismissing the bug and its instructions, Lee returns home to find Joan sleeping with Hank (Nicholas Campbell), one of his writer friends. Shortly afterwards, he accidentally kills her while attempting to shoot a drinking glass off of her head in a demented kind of William Tell routine. Having inadvertently accomplished his "mission", Lee flees to Interzone. He spends his time writing reports for his imaginary handler, and it is these documents which, at the LESS