Naked Lunch (film) 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 out of a $17–18 million budget due to a limited
The Naked Spur Screenplay Academy Award. In the years since its release, the film has achieved continued success, gaining more critical acclaim now than upon first release. Leonard Maltin has lauded "The Naked Spur" as "one of the best westerns ever made". In 1997, "The Naked Spur" was added to the United States National Film Registry, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Although much is made of the collaboration between James Stewart and Anthony Mann, Robert Ryan also teamed with Mann in "The Naked Spur", "Men in War", and "God's Little Acre". The Naked Spur The Naked Spur is a 1953 Technicolor