In 1953, exterminator William Lee finds that his wife Joan is stealing his supply of insecticide to use as a recreational drug. Lee is arrested by the police, and he begins hallucinating due to being exposed to the insecticide. Lee comes to believe that he is a secret agent, and his boss, a giant talking beetle, assigns him the mission of killing Joan, who is allegedly an agent of an organization called Interzone Incorporated. Lee dismisses the beetle's instructions and kills it. Lee returns home to find Joan having sex with Hank, one of his writer friends. Shortly afterwards, he accidentally kills her while attempting to shoot a drinking glass off her head to emulate William Tell.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Drama |
Country: | Canada, Japan, United Kingdom |
Produced By: | Jeremy Thomas, Gabriella Martinelli |
Directed By: | David Cronenberg |
Written By: | David Cronenberg, William S. Burroughs |
Cast: | Joseph Di Mambro, Peter Boretski, Judy Davis, Yuval Daniel, Michael Caruana, Julian Richings, Sean McCann, Jim Yip, Nicholas Campbell, Roy Scheider, Louis Ferreira, Robert A. Silverman, Joseph Scoren, Ian Holm, Howard Jerome, Kurt Reis, Julian Sands, Peter Weller, Michael Zelniker, John Friesen, Monique Mercure |
In Theaters: | Apr 24, 1992 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 55 minutes |
Production: | Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Téléfilm Canada, Film Trustees Ltd. |
Budget: | $16,000,000 |
Box Office: | $2,641,357 |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |