Spider (movie)
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Spider is a 2001 film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. It is based on the novel Spider by Patrick McGrath, who also wrote the screenplay.
The film premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, and enjoyed significant awards-buzz before being dumped into a few theaters at the years' end by its distributor, Sony Pictures Classics. Nonetheless, the film enjoyed much acclaim by critics and especially by Cronenberg enthusiasts; indeed, the film garnered only one award - but an important one - at the Canadian Genie Awards: Best Director.
Spider is an exploration of the mind of a schizophrenic and the story is told through the eyes of a son whose father murdered his mother and replaced her with a prostitute. Gradually, it is revealed that memory and reality can be pliable, unstable concepts and that events might not have unfolded as first appeared.
Cast
- Ralph Fiennes as Dennis "Spider" Cleg
- Bradley Hall as Dennis "Spider" Cleg (young)
- Miranda Richardson as Mrs. Cleg (Dennis' mother)
- Gabriel Byrne as Bill Cleg (Dennis' father)
- Lynn Redgrave as Mrs. Wilkinson
Additional Information
- Screenplay By: Patrick McGrath
- Producers: David Cronenberg, Samuel Hadida and Catherine Bailey
- Executive Producers: Luc Roeg, Charles Finch, Martin Katz, Jane Barclay, Sharon Harel, Hannah Leader, Zygi Kamasa, Simon Franks, and Victor Hadida
- Director of Photography: Peter Suschitzky
- Film Editor: Ronald Sanders
- Production Designer: Andrew Sanders
- Costume Designer: Denise Cronenberg
- Composer: Howard Shore
- Casting: Suzanne Smith
- Running time: 98 Minutes
External links
- Official film site (http://www.spiderthemovie.com)
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| Movies by David Cronenberg |
| Transfer | From the Drain | Stereo | Crimes of the Future | Shivers | Rabid | Fast Company | The Brood | Scanners | The Dead Zone | Videodrome | The Fly | Dead Ringers | Naked Lunch | M. Butterfly | Crash | eXistenZ | Spider |