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Spider

Cast

Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave View All


Crew

David Cronenberg (Director), Patrick McGrath (Writer) View All

Release: Dec. 13th, 2002
Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
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christine
Wandering through familiar locations starts a series of well crafted flashbacks that allow Spider (his childhood nickname) to step into scenes from his childhood.
mark f
Cronenberg's low-key, but haunting treatment of mental illness begins slowly but gradually draws you into the story of a man nicknamed Spider (Ralph Fiennes) who's released from a mental hospital and enters a halfway house run by Mrs.
SamsoniteDelila
Rightly, words have been attached to this film along the lines of "perfect pitch", "well-made" and "brilliant"... also "bleak", "unsparing" and "disturbing.".


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