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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
GB
Genres:
Crime, Drama
Release:
December 1991
Production:
Recorded Picture Company, Naked Lunch Productions, 20th Century Fox
Cast:
Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider, Monique Mercure, Nicholas Campbell, Michael Zelniker, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren, Peter Boretski, Yuval Daniel, John Friesen, Sean McCann, Howard Jerome, Michael Caruana, Kurt Reis, Louis Ferreira, Julian Richings, Jim Yip, Claude Aflalo, Laurent Hazout, Joseph Di Mambro
Tags:
based on novel or book, writing, hallucination, writer, bug, illegal drugs, exterminator, beat generation, gay theme
