Naked Lunch
Exterminate all rational thought.
Blank-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
- David Cronenberg
- Worldwide
- $3M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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Blank-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.
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The record
Awards
1 win
Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture
1 win
- WinnerAcademy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for Best Motion Picture
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Naked Lunch returned 0.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $16M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $3M
- Release date
- Dec 27, 1991
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- Arabic, English
- Country
- Canada, United Kingdom
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