Item:

Title:
SPIDER
Title year:
2001
Original dialogue(s):
  • English
Version(s):
  • FST
  • Fr dub
Copyright:
2002 Spider Productions Ltd./Spider Films Ltd.
Description:
Set in London’s East End in the 1960s and 1980s. Spider sees his father brutally murder his mother and replace her with a prostitute. Convinced they plan to murder him next, Spider hatches an insane plan which he carries through to tragic effect. Years later, Spider, now an adult, is released in a halfway house, where he receives little care from the landlady. Unsupervised, he stops taking his medication and starts revisiting his childhood haunts.

Director(s):
Credited as:
David Cronenberg -
Screen Writer(s):
Credited as:
Patrick McGrath -
David Cronenberg -
Source:
Credited as: Source material:
Patrick McGrath - 1990 Book: "Spider"
Actor(s):
Credited as: Character name:
Ralph Fiennes - -
Miranda Richardson - -
Gabriel Byrne - -
John Neville - -
Bradley Hall - -
Lynn Redgrave - -
Gary Reineke - -
Philip Craig - -
Cliff Saunders - -
Tara Ellis - -
Sara Stockbridge - -
Arthur Whybrow - -
Nicola Duffett - -
Jake Nightingale - -
Alison Egan - -
Donald Ewer - -
Joan Heney - -
Producer(s):
Credited as:
Catherine Bailey -
David Cronenberg -
Associate Producer(s):
Credited as:
Maria Aitken -
Sanjay Burman -
Executive Producer(s):
Credited as:
Martin F. Katz -
Jane Barclay -
Sharon Harel -
Hannah Leader -
Luc Roeg -
Charles Finch -
Editor(s):
Credited as:
Ronald Sanders -
Musician(s):
  • Howard Shore
Photography:
  • Peter Suschitzky

Support:
35mm Col

Festival:
Cannes (in competition) (Grand Théâtre Lumière) 2002/5/21
Toronto Best Canadian Feature Award 2002/9/9
Release:
New York (one week to qualify for Oscars) 2002/12/20
London 2003/1/3
Montréal, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles 2003/2/28

Location(s):
  • London (UK)
  • Toronto
Laboratory:
  • Deluxe
Organization(s):
Distributor(s):
France Fr Metropolitan Film
US US Sony Pictures Classics
U.K. UK Helkon SK
Canada Cn Odeon Films Inc.

CFFD Reference No.:
3538
Misacs No.:
336512
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