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 SPIDER
A
deeply disturbed boy, Spider, 'sees' his father brutally murder
his mother and replace her with a prostitute, Yvonne. Convinced
they plan to murder him next, Spider hatches an insane plan, which
he carries through to tragic effect.
Review by David Bruce |
SPIDER
(2002)
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CREDITS
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Directed
by David Cronenberg
Novel and screenplay by Patrick McGrath
Ralph Fiennes .... Dennis 'Spider' Cleg
Miranda Richardson .... Yvonne/Mrs. Cleg
Gabriel Byrne .... Bill Cleg
Bradley Hall .... Young Spider
Lynn Redgrave .... Mrs. Wilkinson
John Neville .... Terrence
Gary Reineke .... Freddy
Philip Craig .... John
rest of cast listed alphabetically
Sara Stockbridge .... Gladys
Produced
by
Maria Aitken .... associate producer
Catherine Bailey .... producer
Jane Barclay .... executive producer
Sanjay Burman .... associate producer
David Cronenberg .... producer
Charles Finch .... executive producer
Simon Franks .... executive producer
Samuel Hadida .... producer
Victor Hadida .... executive producer
Sharon Harel .... executive producer
Zygi Kamasa .... executive producer
Martin Katz .... executive producer
Hannah Leader .... executive producer
Luc Roeg .... executive producer
Guy Tannahill .... line producer
Original Music by Howard Shore
Cinematography by Peter Suschitzky
Film Editing by Ronald Sanders
MPAA:
Rated R for sexuality, brief violence and language.
Runtime: France:98 min (Cannes Film Festival) / UK:98 min
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SYNOPSIS
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 Spider
is set in the East End London in the 1960s and '80's. A deeply disturbed
boy, Spider (Bradley Hall), 'sees' his father brutally murder his
mother and replace her with a prostitute, Yvonne (Miranda Richardson).
Convinced they plan to murder him next, Spider hatches an insane plan,
which he carries through to tragic effect. Years later, Spider (Ralph
Fiennes) is released into a halfway house, where he receives little
care or attention from the landlady Mrs. Wilkinson (Lynn Redgrave).
Unsupervised, Spider stops taking his medication and starts revisiting
his childhood haunts. His attempts to sustain his delusional account
of his past begin to unravel and Spider spirals into fresh madness. |
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REVIEW
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Cronenberg: "Young Spider's unique, bizarre and yet somehow disturbingly
logical responsible response to the ambivalent feelings in himself
to the traumatic events of his childhood is rare and powerful stuff.
It's also close enough to the sexual dynamics of any family to be
really unnerving. An adult Spider must be played by Ralph Fiennes,
because he is an actor who can play a disconnected character, who
at the same time generates empathy and sympathy in the audience; a
character who is vulnerable and gentle yet extremely dangerous. So
strange, this very unique Spider, and yet oddly familiar, and even
more so these days when the streets of the world are filled with the
'homeless,' each of whom has a very specific story to tell about 'home.'"
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