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
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Spider is set in the East End London in the 1960s and '80's. 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. Years later, Spider is released into a halfway house, where he receives little care or attention from the landlady Mrs. Wilkinson. 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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Dennis "Spider" Cleg
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rating 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.… Continued