Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch is a 1991 surrealist science fiction drama film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider. It is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs's 1959 novel Naked Lunch, and an international co-production of Canada, Britain, and Japan.
Plot
In 1953, exterminator William Lee finds that his wife Joan is stealing his insecticide to use as a recreational drug. Lee is arrested by the police, and he begins hallucinating due to exposure to the insecticide.
Awards
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| author | David Cronenberg |
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| award | Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture |
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | David Cronenberg |
| editor | Ronald Sanders |
| genre | drama science fiction |
| keywords | addict arrest beetle border guard border patrol dead wife doppelgänger double agent drink exterminator giant brazilian centipedes insecticide interzone kill new life north africa pest control recreational drug recreational drug use scolopendra gigantea secret agent shapeshifting steal talk william tell write |
| musicBy | Howard Shore |
| producer | Gabriella Martinelli Jeremy Thomas |
| productionCompany | Recorded Picture Company |
| publisher | Alliance Releasing |
| recordedAt | Toronto |
| theme | avant-garde and experimental japanese monster movie science fiction drama surreal |