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Naked Lunch
1991
· Movie
· 115 min
C
MEANRANK
69/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2545
- IMDb #2466
- Rotten Tomatoes #2046
- Metacritic #2475
- Letterboxd #1302
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2571
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1957
- Metacritic Critics #1774
- Metacritic Audience #3730
- Criticker #974
- Kinopoisk #2387
- AlloCiné #2709
- Trakt #2788
Every rating
58–77
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 58, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 77.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →An exterminator in 1950s New York becomes addicted to his own bug powder. His addiction plunges him into a hallucinatory nightmare where he receives instructions from giant insects to become a secret agent. He travels to a surreal North African zone, where the lines between his writing, his espionage assignments, and his drug-induced psychosis completely dissolve.
Details
- Director
- David Cronenberg
- Writer
- David Cronenberg
- Based on
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Released
- 27 December 1991
- Country
- Canada, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $16.0M
- Box office
- $2.6M
- Awards
- 13 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 16 →13 wins from 16 nominations across 4 ceremonies
| Genie Awards 1992 | Best Sound Editing | Richard Cadger, Wayne Griffin, David Evans, Jane Tattersall, Andy Malcolm and Tony Currie | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1992 | Best Motion Picture | Gabriella Martinelli and Jeremy Thomas | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1992 | Best Direction | David Cronenberg | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1992 | Best Adapted Screenplay | David Cronenberg | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1992 | Best Actor | Peter Weller | Nominee |
| Genie Awards 1992 | Best Supporting Actress | Monique Mercure | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1992 | Best Art Direction | Carol Spier | Winner |
| Genie Awards 1992 | Best Cinematography | Peter Suschitzky | Winner |
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Genie Awards
11 nominations, 8 won
| Best Adapted Screenplay | David Cronenberg | Winner |
| Best Art Direction | Carol Spier | Winner |
| Best Cinematography | Peter Suschitzky | Winner |
| Best Direction | David Cronenberg | Winner |
| Best Motion Picture | Gabriella Martinelli and Jeremy Thomas | Winner |
| Best Sound | Peter Maxwell, Bryan Day, David Appleby and Don White | Winner |
| Best Sound Editing | Richard Cadger, Wayne Griffin, David Evans, Jane Tattersall, Andy Malcolm and Tony Currie | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Monique Mercure | Winner |
| Best Actor | Peter Weller | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Denise Cronenberg | Nominee |
| Best Score | Howard Shore | Nominee |
National Society of Film Critics
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Director | David Cronenberg | Winner |
| Best Screenplay | David Cronenberg | Winner |
New York Film Critics Circle
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Screenplay | David Cronenberg | Winner |
| Best Supporting Actress | Judy Davis | Winner |
Boston Society of Film Critics
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Screenplay | David Cronenberg | Winner |