Mike Leigh's brilliant and controversial Naked stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming, eloquent, and relentlessly vicious drifter on the lam in London. Rejecting all those who would care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself into a nocturnal odyssey through the city, colliding with a succession of the desperate and the dispossessed, and scorching everyone in his path. With a virtuoso script and raw performances from Thewlis and costars Katrin Cartlidge and Lesley Sharpe, Leigh's panorama of England's crumbling underbelly is a showcase of black comedy and doomsday prophecy, and was the winner of the best director and actor prizes at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
Supplements
Audio commentary by director Mike Leigh and actors David Thewlis and Katrin Cartlidge
Exclusive new video interview with director Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men)
The Art Zone: "The Conversation," a BBC program featuring author Will Self interviewing Leigh
The Short and Curlies, a short comedy from 1982 directed by Leigh and starring Thewlis