Naked Lunch
Exterminate all rational thought.
Naked Lunch (1991)
Timing:
1:55 (115 min)
7.021/10
1023
1023
7.069/10
16783
16783
6.9/10
61000
61000
Country
Production
Genre
Crime, Drama
Budget
$16 000 000
Revenue
$2 665 810
Director
Actors
Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Operator
Peter Suschitzky
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Ronald Sanders
All team (28)
All team (28)
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- To star in this film, Peter Weller turned down a role in 'RoboCop 3'.
- The shooting of the writer’s wife was not a random plot twist. The author of the book on which this film is based, William S. Burroughs (1915-1997), accidentally shot his own wife, Joan, in Mexico during a party in 1951, when he announced that he would shoot a pistol “in the style of William Tell” (she had placed a glass of liquor on her head, he shot, but missed and killed her). Under Mexican law at the time, Burroughs served 13 days in a local jail.
- This film was initially intended to be the first by David Cronenberg not filmed in Toronto, but the authorities of the province of Ontario offered him attractive financial terms; moreover, the Iraqi army's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 put an end to plans to film in Morocco, so filming took place in Toronto.
- Seven hundred tons of sand were brought into the building of a former ammunition factory to film the desert scenes.
- To star in this film, Peter Weller turned down a role in "RoboCop 3".
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