Spider
2002 · Movie · 98 min. · Canada
Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality.
Direction David Cronenberg
Cast Ralph Fiennes · Miranda Richardson · Gabriel Byrne · Lynn Redgrave · John Neville · Bradley Hall · Gary Reineke · Philip Craig · Cliff Saunders · Tara Ellis · Sara Stockbridge · Arthur Whybrow · Nicola Duffett · Jake Nightingale · Alison Egan · Donald Ewer · Joan Heney · Peter Elliott · Alec Stockwell · Scott McCord · Frank Blanch · Rachel Taggart · Olivia Imogen Harris
Soundtrack Howard Shore
Screenplay Patrick McGrath
Cinematography Peter Suschitzky
Original title Spider
6.6
7K votes (FilmAffinity)
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