Naked Lunch Movie Review 1991

Whacked-out movie based on William S. Burroughs's autobiographical account of drug abuse, homosexuality, violence, and weirdness set in the drug-inspired land called Interzone. Hallucinogenic images are carried to the extreme: typewriters metamorphose into beetles, bloblike creatures with sex organs scurry about, and characters mainline insecticide. Some of the characters are clearly based on writers of the Beat generation, including Jane and Paul Bowles, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 117 minutes.
Originally from Canadian, British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Hallucinations/Illusions, Drug Use & Abuse, Metamorphosis, Gays, Sexcapades, Books to Film: William Burroughs, Writers

Screenplay

David Cronenberg

Cast

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

Cinematography

Peter Suschitzsky

Director

David Cronenberg

Music

Howard Shore

Producer

Jeremy Thomas

Awards

Genie 1992: Adapt. Screenplay, Art Dir./Set Dec., Cinematog., Director (Cronenberg), Film, Sound, Support. Actress (Mercure); N.Y. Film Critics 1991: Screenplay, Support. Actress (Davis); Natl. Soc. Film Critics 1991: Director (Cronenberg), Screenplay.