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Naked Lunch (1991) [R]

Release Date:
December 27, 1991

Original Title:
Naked Lunch

Alternate Titles:
Almuerzo desnudo
David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch
Festín Desnudo
Hadaka no lunch
Голий ланч
Обед нагишом
裸體午餐
네이키드 런치

Genres:
Crime | Drama

Production Companies:
20th Century Fox
Naked Lunch Productions
Recorded Picture Company

Production Countries:
Canada | United Kingdom | United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
BR: 18  DE: 16  FR: 12  GB: 18  HU: 18  IT: VM18  NL: 16  PT: M/16  US: R 

Runtime: 115

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Overview from TheMovieDB

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.

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Production

Art Direction:
James McAteer

Assistant Makeup Artist:
Marlene Aarons
Judy Murdock
Marilyn O'Quinn

Casting:
Deirdre Bowen

Co-Producer:
Gabriella Martinelli

Costume Design:
Denise Cronenberg

Costume Supervisor:
Brenda Gilles

Creature Design:
Chris Walas

Director:
David Cronenberg

Director of Photography:
Peter Suschitzky

Editor:
Ronald Sanders

Hairstylist:
Veronica Ciandre
Rhoda Ancill
Carmen MacDonald
Lucy M. Orton

Makeup Department Head:
Christine Hart

Novel:
William S. Burroughs

Original Music Composer:
Howard Shore
Ornette Coleman

Producer:
Jeremy Thomas

Production Design:
Carol Spier

Set Decoration:
Elinor Rose Galbraith

Sound Effects Editor:
David Evans
Jane Tattersall

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Peter Maxwell
Don White
David Appleby

Writer:
David Cronenberg

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