Spider (2003)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Feb 28, 2003

Running Time: 98 mins.

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

Country Of Origin: Canada

starring: Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Bradley Hall, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville, Philip Craig, Gary Reineke, Cliff Saunders, Tara Ellis

director: David Cronenberg

Spider, a deeply disturbed boy, believes his father has brutally murdered his mother and replaced her with a prostitute. He is diagnosed a schizophrenic and is sent to a mental institution, where he remains for twenty years. While institutionalized, he falls in love with the wife of one of the doctors. Upon his release, she follows him to London's rough East End where he tries to return to his former life as an artist. Gradually his fragile grip on reality begins to crumble.

February 20, 2003

Don't miss the chance to welcome Ralph Fiennes back to the craft of acting after playing second-fiddle psycho to Anthony Hopkins in Red Dragon and lovesick lap dog to J. Lo in Maid in Manhattan. Fiennes is at his best in Spider, rising to the challenge of a dark, demanding role.

And don't mistake Spider for Spider-Man, in which a bite from an arachnid turns a wimp into a superhero. Miracles are not in the cards for Fiennes' Dennis Cleg, the mental patient whose web-loving mum called him Spider.…