Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book called "Naked lunch."
General Note: Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.For private home use only.Videodisc release of the 1991 British/Canadian motion picture by Recorded Picture Company (Productions) and Naked Lunch Productions.Based on the book by William S. Burroughs.For specific added features see container or interactive features menu while viewing disc.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Producer, Jeremy Thomas ; director/writer, David Cronenberg ; photography, Peter Suschitzky ; editor, Ronald Sanders ; music, Howard Shore ; music, Ornette Coleman and the Ornette Coleman Trio.
Participant or Performer Note: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider.