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				Naked Lunch (1991) | 
			 
				
			
			
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				Film rated 3.9 / 5 
				(Chick rating: 3.3 / 5) 
				(Guy rating: 3.9 / 5)
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		| William Tell, heroin hell. | 
	 
	
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		| Typewriters are 'key' characters. | 
	 
	
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		| The typewriter's buggered! | 
	 
	
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		| Cronenberg typewriter has bugs. | 
	 
	
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		| Cronenberg's gone to lunch. | 
	 
	
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		| Mouth-to-arse recitation. | 
	 
	
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		| Typewriter becomes a pest. | 
	 
	
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		| Exterminator exterminates wife. | 
	 
	
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		| Typewriters become bugs?!  Drugs. | 
	 
	
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		| Burroughs incomprehensible without heroin. | 
	 
	
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		| Cronenberg's keys in Burroughs. | 
	 
	
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		| Exterminator becomes own dealer. | 
	 
	
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		| Brazilian centipede's flesh narcotic? | 
	 
	
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		| Bill ingests mugwump jism. | 
	 
	
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		| Exterminator has bad trip! | 
	 
	
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		| Cronenberg films unfilmable novel. | 
	 
	
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		| Writer becomes bug addict. | 
	 
	
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		| Insect typewriter bamboozles Burroughs. | 
	 
	
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		| Man talks to typewriters. | 
	 
	
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		| Homoerotic exterminator's Kafkaesque recantations. | 
	 
	
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		| Wife injects insecticide. | 
	 
	
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		| Lee kills Bilbo's typewriter. | 
	 
	
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		| Burrough's work boldly realised. | 
	 
	
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		| Typewriter transforms into cockroach. | 
	 
	
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		| Exterminator accidentally exterminates spouse. | 
	 
	
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		| Exterminator addicted to insecticide. | 
	 
	
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		| Bill Burroughs gets shot. | 
	 
	
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		| Burroughs talks from arse. | 
	 
	
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		| 'William Tell routine' misfires. | 
	 
	
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		| 'Tasty' typewriter secretes fluids. | 
	 
	
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		| Hank = Kerouac. Martin = Ginsberg. | 
	 
	
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		| 'Talking Asshole' told verbatim. | 
	 
	
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		| Typewriter keeps nagging Weller. | 
	 
	
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		| Bill destroys typewriters repeatedly. | 
	 
	
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		| Interzone is really Casbah. | 
	 
	
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		| Interzone boys accost Weller. | 
	 
	
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		| Holm, Weller converse telepathically. | 
	 
	
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		| Insectoid typewriters hatch conspiracies. | 
	 
	
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		| Talking bug recruits Weller. | 
	 
	
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		| Transmogrified Cloquet kills Kiki. | 
	 
	
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		| Weller, Holm exchange typewriters. | 
	 
	
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		| Undercover Robocop de-bugs memory. | 
	 
	
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		| Doctor prescribes black meat. | 
	 
	
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		| Burroughs imagines typewriter's arsehole. | 
	 
	
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		| Weller reports Interzone intrigue. | 
	 
	
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		| Talking bugs, amphibian spies. | 
	 
	
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		| Shrewish Davis, sinister Schneider. | 
	 
	
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		| Cronenberg's entomological paranoid fantasy. | 
	 
	
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		| Monstrous beetle conspiracy theorists. | 
	 
	
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		| Exterminator bugged by typewriters. | 
	 
	
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		| Peter's entomological espionage escapade. | 
	 
	
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		| Weller Borroughs into 'Lunch'. | 
	 
	
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		| Benway's racket: mugwump jism. | 
	 
	
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		| A rather disgusting 'Lunch'. | 
	 
	
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