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Spider

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Spider
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R,1hr 38min
Genres:
Drama,Action
Released:
February 28, 2003
Director:
David Cronenberg
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Classics
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne  ...more
Synopsis: 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). ... Full Synopsis
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Mark Deming, AMG Review
David Cronenberg is a filmmaker so full of ideas that he sometimes seems to have trouble coming up with a narrative framework which will support them all; at times Videodrome and eXistenZ seemed to exist more for the sake of their subtexts rather than their principle story lines. But while Spider is one of his most powerful and compelling voyages into the human psyche, it's also a rare example of a ... Full Review
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Ralph Fiennes
Spider
Miranda Richardson
Mrs. Cleg, Mrs. Wilkinson, Yvonne, Yvonne/Mrs. Cleg/Mrs. Wilkinson
Gabriel Byrne
Bill Cleg
Bradley Hall
Young Spider
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