Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 07/29/2003
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 98 min
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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