NAKED LUNCH (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1991
• Genre: Fantasy, Mystery
• Plot: 'Exterminate all rational thought.' Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs' 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' 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.
• Cast: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren, Peter Boretski, Yuval Daniel, John Friesen, Sean McCann, Howard Jerome, Michael Caruana, Kurt Reis, Louis Ferreira, Julian Richings, Jim Yip, Claude Aflalo, Laurent Hazout, Joseph Di Mambro, David Cronenberg, William S. Burroughs
• Director: David Cronenberg
• Runtime: 1:55
• Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie