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Release Date: 1991

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

Categories: Movies, LGBT, Erotic Drama, Japanese Movies, Indie, Comedy, Experimental film, Surrealism, Psychological thriller, Addiction Drama, Mystery, Biography, Fantasy, Kafkaesque, Film adaptation, Avant-garde

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. It received mixed critical reaction. William Lee (Weller) is an exterminator who finds that his wife Joan (Davis) is stealing his insecticide (pyrethrum) to use as a drug. When Lee is arrested by the police, he begins hallucinating because of "bug powder" exposure. He believes he is a secret agent... 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. It received mixed critical reaction. William Lee (Weller) is an exterminator who finds that his wife Joan (Davis) is stealing his insecticide (pyrethrum) to use as a drug. When Lee is arrested by the police, he begins hallucinating because of "bug powder" exposure. He believes he is a secret agent whose controller (a giant bug) assigns him the mission of killing Joan, who is an agent of an organization called Interzone Incorporated. Lee dismisses the bug and its instructions and kills it. He returns home to find Joan sleeping with Hank (Campbell), one of his writer friends. Shortly afterwards, he accidentally kills her while attempting to shoot a drinking glass off of her head in imitation of William Tell. 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 insistence LESS