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Gary Walkow (writer)
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Sex and Drugs before Rock and Roll
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The story of writer William Seward Burroughs and his wife. | add synopsis
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Unromantic and riveting film about a true story more (30 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Courtney Love | ... | Joan Vollmer Burroughs |
 | Kiefer Sutherland | ... | William S. Burroughs |
 | Lisa Sheridan | ... | Sadie |
| Patricia Llaca | ... | Mary (as Patricia De Llaca) |
| Steve Hedden | ... | Pharmacist |
 | Ron Livingston | ... | Allen Ginsberg |
 | Norman Reedus | ... | Lucien Carr |
| Daniel Martínez | ... | Jack Kerouac |
| Kyle Secor | ... | Dave Kammerer |
| Pedro Gonzalez | ... | Knife Sharpener |
| Georgiana Sîrbu | ... | Julie |
| Rene Rubio | ... | Bill Jr. |
 | Sam Trammell | ... | Lee |
| Alec Von Bargen | ... | Heard |
 | Tommy Perna | ... | Dwight |
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Rated R for language and elements of sex, drugs and violence.
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Lucien Carr:
They'll probably give me the chair for this, huh?
William S. Burroughs:
Don't be absurd. They don't fry freshman literature students.
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Version of Naked Lunch (1991) more
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The beatniks were an artistic and social counterculture movement before the hippies in the sixties. The characters in this movie were famous poets and writers in this movement who had already had many adventures before we find them in this story. Burroughs is holed up in Mexico with his wife and kids on the lam from the US because he had been a heroine addict. Along with his marriage, Burroughs has a homosexual relationship with a younger man. The marriage is having some problems. Some old friends come down south to visit them and party with them.
Perhaps it helps to have had some familiarity with the lives of these people, their times and their work to appreciate this film. Even so, this is a good place to start.