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Naked Lunch
1991
From director David Cronenberg [The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)] comes the film adaptation of William Burroughs’s modern literary masterpiece The Naked Lunch. The book was controversial and ground-breaking and banned for many years for its sensational content. A semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs’s inner journey, .. Read more
| Starring | Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Judy Davis, Ian Holm |
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| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Genres | Drama |
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Naked Lunch
From director David Cronenberg [The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)] comes the film adaptation of William Burroughs’s modern literary masterpiece The Naked Lunch. The book was controversial and ground-breaking and banned for many years for its sensational content. A semi-autobiographical account of Burroughs’s inner journey, this surreal fantasy pulls its audience into a world of spies, witches and mutating monsters
| Starring | Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider |
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| Director | David Cronenberg |
| Studio | ELEVATION SALES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 50 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 50 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Released | Production year: 1991 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 08 Apr 2011 To Rent: DVD: 26 Jul 2004 |
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Instead of the savagery and rampant homosexuality of the original, the film concerns the act of the book's creation, through the hallucinatory experiences of a writer, based on Burroughs, among the expatriate artistic community of Tangier. All that is car
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Wow....the Bug Powder!
Where do I start?
Beautifully shot, weird, arthouse, slightly-camp drug/horror movie.
The anti-hero is a deadbeat American who works as a ... read more » - 314924
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- 24 Nov 2004 at 08:44
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A Cronenberg-Burroughs mash-up
“Exterminate all rational thought.”
So proclaims William Lee (Peter Weller) near the start of David Cronenberg’s meta-adaptation of ... read more » - 1096071
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What a pile of drug induced crap!
For any fans of writers who like to get their inspiration after taking copious amounts of illegal drugs etc, then this may appeal if said drugs are injected ... read more »
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The drug of film
Truly original. The film is based on a confused story line with the themes of drug addiction, society, sexuality and insanity. When interleaved the themes ... read more »
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Roy Scheider 1932 - 2008
- 12 Feb 2008
"Film orange?!?" For most of us, Roy Scheider's contribution to mobile cinema culture in the popular Orange commercials a little while back was a reminder of an esteemed actor who had been away too long. The ad made reference to Scheider's two most famous films - The French Connection (his first Oscar nomination) and Jaws. Both were huge box office hits in the early 1970s, though neither quite propelled him into the A-list. He was also in Klute, Marathon Man and All That Jazz (his best... Read more
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Naked Lunch
From director David Cronenberg [The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988)] comes the film adaptation of William Burroughs’s modern literary masterpiece The Naked Lunch. The book was controversial and ground-breaking and banned for many years for its sensational content. A semi-autobiographical ...
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