About the film
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.
- Released
- December 27, 1991
- Certification
- R
- Country
- Canada, United Kingdom
- Starring
- Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren
- Language
- Arabic, English
- Origin
- GB
- Studios
- Recorded Picture Company, Naked Lunch Productions
- Written by
- William S. Burroughs, David Cronenberg
- Produced by
- Jeremy Thomas
- Cinematography
- Peter Suschitzky
- Music
- Howard Shore, Ornette Coleman
- Budget
- $16,000,000
- Box office
- $2,641,357
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