Movie: "Naked Lunch"

Release Date: Dec 1991 Genres: Mystery / Fantasy / Drama / Crime / Biography Awards: 13 wins & 5 nominations Runtime: 115 min Cast: Peter Weller (Bill Lee), Judy Davis (Joan Frost / Joan Lee), Ian Holm (Tom Frost), Julian Sands (Yves Cloquet), Roy Scheider (Dr. Benway) Monique Mercure (Fadela) Nicholas Campbell (Hank) Michael Zelniker (Martin) Robert A. Silverman (Hans) Joseph Scoren (Kiki (as Joseph Scorsiani)) Peter Boretski (Creature Voices / Exterminator #2) Yuval Daniel (Hafid) John Friesen (Hauser) Sean McCann (O'Brien) Howard Jerome (A.J. Cohen)

Storyline

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 an Islamic port called Interzone. Wonderfully bizarre, not unlike Burrough's books.