Naked (1993 film)

Naked
Canadian poster
Directed byMike Leigh
Written byMike Leigh
Produced bySimon Channing Williams
Starring
CinematographyDick Pope
Edited byJon Gregory
Music byAndrew Dickson
Production
company
Distributed byFirst Independent Films
Release date
  • 5 November 1993 (1993-11-05)
Running time
131 minutes[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.8 million (US)

Naked is a 1993 British black comedy drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh and starring David Thewlis as Johnny, a loquacious intellectual, philosopher and conspiracy theorist. The film won several awards, including best director and best actor at Cannes. Naked marked a new career high for Leigh as a director and made the then-unknown Thewlis an internationally recognised star.[2]

  1. ^ "Naked (18)". British Board of Film Classification. 9 August 1993. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
  2. ^ Jeffries, Stuart. "'I got dangerously close to Johnny'". The Guardian. 14 August 2008. Retrieved 12 November 2014.