Naked Lunch (Criterion) (1991)

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director: David Cronenberg

studio: Criterion Collection

year: 1991

format: 1:85:1

number of discs: 2

movie length: 115 minutes

region: 1

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

"Exterminate all rational thought." Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs's hallucinatory, "unfilmable" novel is finally realized onscreen by director David Cronenberg. Part-time exterminator and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Peter Weller) plunges into the nightmarish netherworld of the Interzone, pursuing a mysterious project that leads him to confront sinister cabals and giant talking bugs. The fruit of an unholy union between two masters of the hilarious and the macabre, Naked Lunch mingles aspects of Burroughs's novel with incidents from his own life, resulting in a compendium of paranoid fantasies and a searching investigation into the mysteries of the writing process.