Rent Naked Lunch (1991)
3.2 of 5 from 154 ratings
1h 50min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Former junkie William Lee (Peter Weller) makes ends meet as an exterminator. But when he and his wife Joan (Judy Davis) discover the hallucinatory properties of the powder he uses to kill bugs, they become hooked, and their world is changed forever. Insects speak, typewriters mutate and talk, interdimensional beings reveal themselves, identities fracture and blur; nothing and no one is quite what it seems. When Bill, underthe influence of drugs, or the bugsthat have begun talking to him, shoots his wife, he flees to Interzone, at once a place and a state of mind, where things only get stranger.
- Actors:
- 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
- Directors:
- David Cronenberg
- Producers:
- Jeremy Thomas
- Writers:
- William S. Burroughs, David Cronenberg
- Aka:
- David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch
- Studio:
- Optimum
- Genres:
- Drama, Thrillers
- Collections:
- Getting to Know..., Introducing a British Film Family, People of the Pictures, Remembering Julian Sands and Frederic Forrest, Top 10 Golden Bear Winners, Top Films
- Countries:
- Canada
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 17/08/2015
- Run Time:
- 115 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 17/04/2023
- Run Time:
- 115 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0, English Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary by director David Cronenberg
- New audio commentary by film historian Jack Sargeant and screenwriter Graham Duff
- Naked Attraction, a new interview with legendary producer Jeremy Thomas
- Exterminate All Rational Thought, a new interview with star Peter Weller
- Peter Suschitzky on 'Naked Lunch', a new interview with the celebrated director of photography
- Naked Flesh, a new interview with special effects artist Chris Walas
- A Ballad for Burroughs, a new interview with composer Howard Shore
- Tony Rayns on William S. Burroughs, a new interview with the renowned writer and critic
- David Huckvale on 'Naked Lunch', a new interview taking a closer look at one of Shore's most unusual film scores
- A Ticket to Interzone, new visual essay by critic David Cairns
- Naked Making Lunch, archival making-of documentary directed by Chris Rodley presented in a new scan from the director's personal 16mm print and viewable with a new audio interview with Rodley discussing his connection to Cronenberg and the process of making Naked Making Lunch
- Concept Art Gallery, a collection of drawings and maquettes for the creatures of Naked Lunch by Stephan Dupuis "Theatrical Trailer
- Image Galleries, including never before seen stills from the set courtesy of Chris Rodley
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Reviews (1) of Naked Lunch
A Bizarre Film To Say the Least. - Naked Lunch review by GI
This has to be David Cronenberg's most impenetrable film, a surreal, mainly bizarre part biographical and part phantasmagorical adaptation of the life and work of William S. Burroughs. Films that delve into writer's and their creative processes can be dull and maudlin affairs and, for me, this was no exception. An hallucinatory journey through the warped and drug addled mind of an author, Bill Lee (Peter Weller), who because of writers block has taken up a job as a bug exterminator in 1950s New York. He and his wife, Joan (Judy Davis) have become hooked on the bug powder he uses to kill cockroaches and after Bill stupidly kills her he finds himself recruited by a strange insect like creature and sent to a North African country where he encounters talking typewriters, weird insect like creatures and.....God knows what's going on? Cronenberg dishes out scenes that gross you out while there's lots of inane talking in a narrative that made little sense. Some of the events are based on real ones in Burrough's life but this film is neither biopic or fantasy story and consequently it's rendered meaningless. I'm sure this has it's fans but it's just a pretentious load of twaddle as far as I'm concerned.
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