Naked Lunch (film) items and themes from the film woven into the lyrics. Naked Lunch (film) Naked Lunch is a 1991 drama film co-written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider. It is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel of the same name, and an international co-production of Canada, Britain and Japan. The film was released on December 27, 1991, in the United States and April 24, 1992, in the United Kingdom by 20th Century Fox. It received positive reviews from critics, but was a box office bomb, garnering only $2.6 million
Lydia Lunch Powers. During this time, she also appeared in a number of films by Vivienne Dick, including "She Had Her Gun All Ready" (1978) and "Beauty Becomes The Beast" (1979), co-starring with Pat Place. In 2011, Lunch appeared in "Mutantes: punk, porn, feminism", a film directed by Virginie Despentes, also featuring Annie Sprinkle and Catherine Breillat. She also wrote, directed and acted in underground films, sometimes collaborating with underground filmmaker and photographer Richard Kern. Lunch has recorded and performed as a spoken word artist, collaborating with artists such as Exene Cervenka, Henry Rollins, Don Bajema and Hubert Selby Jr. as well