Rating: R
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 07/29/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 98 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar

Ralph Fiennes plays a grown man haunted by his childhood in David Cronenberg's stylized psychological drama Spider. Upon his release from a mental institution, Spider (Fiennes) takes up residence in a halfway house. Paranoid, quiet, and forever making notes, Spider spends much of the film remembering scenes from his youth, specifically a horrific event from his childhood that occurred after he came to believe that his father (Gabriel Byrne) was having an affair on his mother (Miranda Richardson). The psychological terror builds to a climax that challenges how much the viewer can believe Spider's recollections of the event. Bradley Hall plays Spider as a boy, and Richardson portrays many different women who come into contact with Spider. Spider was screened in competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Ralph Fiennes - Spider
Miranda Richardson - Mrs. Cleg
Miranda Richardson - Yvonne
Miranda Richardson - Mrs. Wilkinson
Gabriel Byrne - Bill Cleg
Bradley Hall - Young Spider
Lynn Redgrave - Mrs. Wilkinson
John Neville - Terrence
Gary Reineke - Freddy
Philip Craig - John

Production:
David Cronenberg - Director
David Cronenberg Samuel Hadida Catherine Bailey - Producer
Howard Shore - Composer
Ronald Sanders - Editor
Patrick McGrath - Screen Writer
Arvinder Grewal - Art Director
Maria Aitken - Associate Producer
Sanjay Burnam - Associate Producer
Patrick McGrath - Book Author
Suzanne Smith - Casting
Peter Suschitzky - Cinematographer
Denise Cronenberg - Costume Designer
Charles Finch - Executive Producer
Hannah Leader - Executive Producer
Jane Barclay - Executive Producer
Luc Roeg - Executive Producer
Martin F. Katz - Executive Producer
Sharon Harel - Executive Producer
Simon Franks - Executive Producer
Victor Hadida - Executive Producer
Zygi Kamasa - Executive Producer
Walter Gasparovic - First Assistant Director
Guy Tannahill - Line Producer
Andrew Sanders - Production Designer
Andy Malcolm - Sound Editor
David Evans - Sound Editor
Goro Koyama - Sound Editor
Tony Currie - Sound Editor
Wayne Griffin - Sound Editor
Don White - Sound/Sound Designer
Glen Gauthier - Sound/Sound Designer
Orest Sushko - Sound/Sound Designer
Christian Cooke - Sound/Sound Designer

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2003 Chicago Film Critics Association

2002 Genie Awards

2002 Telluride Film Festival

2003 Toronto Film Critics Association