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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, Ian Holm, Roy Scheider
Director	David Cronenberg
Genres	Drama

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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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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:43
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  - 2
  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 »
  
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Robchesh
  - Berks
  - 24 Nov 2004 at 08:44
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- - 1
  - 1
  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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- - Rob468
  - 1 review
  - 09 Nov 2011 at 02:51
- - 1
  - 1
  Gut reaction
  
  Everything about this work of art is unique and real and captivating. Held together by the playing of Ornette Coleman and the dry wit of Burroughs, it weaves an... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - 02 Nov 2011 at 22:17
- - 1
  - 1
  It's Superb!
  
  I loved this film. I've been meaning to see it for ages. Its typical Kronenburg with all of the sexual imagery and metaphor you would expect.
  
  I&#... read more »
  
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- - JohnDChadwick
  - 2 reviews
  - Durham, County Durham
  - 27 Oct 2011 at 12:44
- - 0
  - 0
  Well worth a watch
  
  Wonderful,epic film and complimentary to the book.This film is not for you if you dont like running a number of concepts in your head at the same time,and maybe... read more »
  
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- - PVCPoodle
  - West midlands
  - 06 Sep 2011 at 11:07
- - 1
  - 0
  Drugs are bad mmmmK
  
  I can't make my mind up on this film. It’s very well shot, beautifully designed, brilliantly acted.
  
  But the story has no plot...... well it ... read more »
  
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- - Fishy182
  - 22 reviews
  - Uxbridge
  - 07 Apr 2010 at 22:54
- - 3
  - 12
  very strange
  
  Very strange movie, I don't no were to place it, I don't want to be negative so I'll just give it a full one out of five.
  
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- - coolmoods
  - 17 reviews
  - Newcastle upon Tyne
  - 20 Mar 2010 at 13:14
- - 0
  - 0
  Just Awesome
  
  Great book! Great movie. If your into the more weird movies, definatley give this one a try! You wont be dissapointed!
  
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  - Newport
  - 12 Oct 2009 at 15:46
- - 0
  - 0
  Oo-er
  
  Not sure I was in the right frame of mid to watch this- but then again what would be the right one? This is a very well-made film and though I found it ... read more »
  
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- - BeccyMalloi
  - 124 reviews
  - Kersey, Suffolk
  - 30 Jul 2009 at 22:20
- - 0
  - 1
  I gave up on this one....!
  
  Although the female lead did act and look as if sge were heavily drug-dependent, the same cannot be said of the male lead so that the hallucinations were ... read more »
  
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  - Cambridge
  - 02 Jun 2009 at 18:46
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  weird
  
  just weird from the start to the end, but you cannot stop watching
  
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- - oldbones
  - 7 reviews
  - London
  - 28 Apr 2009 at 09:45
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- - 29
  - 2
  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 »
  
  Report this review
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- [Highly rated reviewer]
  - Robchesh
  - Berks
  - 24 Nov 2004 at 08:44
- - 10
  - 0
  brilliant adaptation
  
  Given the impossibility of bringing the novel to the screen, Cronenberg does a more than commendable job. He wraps elements from the world of the book around ... read more »
  
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- - Andrew Otty
  - Devon, UK
  - 14 Mar 2005 at 12:10
- - 6
  - 0
  I have a craving for mugwahl gism
  
  You have to be a fan of WSB to really appreciate this bizarre world. Pretty much what I expected seeing as Cronenberg was making this movie. Although I ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - Falkirk, Scotland.
  - 30 May 2005 at 09:56
- - 5
  - 0
  A trip
  
  Naked Lunch is a famously unfilmable novel, so Cronenberg skillfully makes his film a combination of elements of the novel, and fictionalised elements of ... read more »
  
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- - Lawrence Conquest
  - siberia
  - 18 May 2005 at 12:59
- - 3
  - 0
  Abandon all rational thought....
  
  Style, juxataposed with grime. I thought that Cronenberg's vision of William Burrough's Naked Lunch was far from vivid. Infact at places a thought it ... read more »
  
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- - Indoc
  - Devon knows how they make it so creamy
  - 17 Jul 2005 at 22:58
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  - 0
  Conenberg & Burroughs.
  
  Naked Lunch, bits of Burroughs' life, delusions and writing cooked all together by the twisted mind of David Cronenberg and his obsession with men-objects ... read more »
  
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- - Pedro
  - Scotland
  - 20 Aug 2004 at 16:10
- - 1
  - 0
  Drugs are bad mmmmK
  
  I can't make my mind up on this film. It’s very well shot, beautifully designed, brilliantly acted.
  
  But the story has no plot...... well it ... read more »
  
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- - Fishy182
  - 22 reviews
  - Uxbridge
  - 07 Apr 2010 at 22:54
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  Err... Whats Going On ?
  
  I guess you should watch this film having done your home work first - Life & Times Of William Burroughs for a start.
  
  Leaving the story line a ... read more »
  
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  - Sheffield, England.
  - 19 Jun 2005 at 12:56
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  nothing is true. everything is permitted.
  
  If you really love burroughs, this might piss you off a bit, but I guess I'm already preaching to the informed, so you'll know why. If you really love ... read more »
  
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- - mark young
  - bristol, england
  - 06 Nov 2005 at 00:56
- - 0
  - 0
  existenz more 'satisfying'?
  
  Another reviewer thought that existenz was 'ultimately more satisfying'. Well I liked the amphibians, but apart from that...
  
  was there ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - here, ish.
  - 06 Nov 2005 at 01:07

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  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 ...