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Naked Lunch

After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.

Not an adaptation of beat writer William S. Burrough's novel but a mix of biography and an interpretation of his drug- induced writing processes combined with elements of his work in this paranoid fantasy about Bill Lee, a writer who accidentally shoots his wife, whose typewriter transforms into a cockroach and who becomes involved in a mysterious plot in North African port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books.

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Info about Naked Lunch

Studio(s): Recorded Picture Company, Naked Lunch Productions

Originally Released: United States, Dec 27, 1991

Production Countries: Canada, United Kingdom, United States

Box Office Gross: $2,641,357.00

Budget: $16,000,000.00

Genres:Drama, Mystery