Naked Lunch
1991 · 115 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 58,532 VOTES · DIR. David Cronenberg
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,221 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:03:06 Exterminator.
00:06:38 We don't exactly know anything.
00:10:37 You've got quite a record, Bill.
00:14:45 But who says Joan Lee is really a woman?
00:20:12 You better help this friend of yours get off the yellow stuff.
00:25:21 Where is Hank?
00:30:29 Hmm. It's commie trash.
00:35:46 a purchasing agent for a foreign power...
00:40:50 You have left the Clark Nova at home?
00:44:33 To write with. Typewriter.
00:48:29 Queer.
00:54:07 - Deported. - Mm-hmm.
01:00:33 - What are you talking about? - I'll show you.
01:05:39 I'm going to need my Martinelli.
01:11:40 You know this instinctively, Bill...
01:15:42 - How about back to your place? - Nope.
01:19:20 Well, my mother's all alone, and she's kind of sick, Bill.
01:25:08 If you continue to develop your skills as an operative...
01:28:52 Cloquet?
01:32:03 And then finally the brain must have died...
01:36:55 Thinking of it.
01:40:56 Clark Nova. Clark Nova -
01:46:30 The look of a... sheep-killing dog.
01:51:32 Yes. Welcome to Annexia.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,221
Dialogue density10.6 lines / min
First line00:03:06
Final line01:51:32
Production Record
DirectorDavid Cronenberg
LanguageEnglish
Budget$16,000,000
Revenue$2,641,357
IMDb votes58,532