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Naked Lunch

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.

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Box Office

Budget: $16,000,000
Revenue: $2,641,357
ROI: -83.5%

Verdict: Flop

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Crew

Directors

> David Cronenberg (Director)
> Peter Suschitzky (Director of Photography)

Writers

> William S. Burroughs (Novel)
> David Cronenberg (Writer)