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Naked Lunch

1991 · 1h 55m · Crime, Drama

IMDb 6.9 Metacritic 67 RT 73%

Skip it tonight unless you're a dedicated David Cronenberg devotee or Beat literature obsessive—this is deliberately surreal, narratively fractured body horror that demands patience and rewards pretension, not a casual watch. If you want weird cinema, go for it, but don't expect coherence or entertainment in the traditional sense.

Plot

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

Cast: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider

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