Spider
By: written by Patrick McGrath ; produced by David Cronenberg, Samuel Hadida ; directed by David Cronenberg
Contributors: Fiennes, Ralph; Richardson, Miranda
Publisher: Sony Picture Classics [distributor]
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [U.K.]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Feature films
Description: Spider (Ralph Fiennes) is a strange and fragile character having experienced such a traumatic childhood, which resulted in spending a long time in a mental institution, he returns to the streets of the East End of London where he grew up. The sights, sounds and the smells of those streets begin to awaken the deeply buried memories of his childhood. At the centre of these memories is the great trauma of losing his mother (Miranda Richardson). Spider believes that his father, Bill Cleg (Gabriel Byrne) murdered her so that he could move a prostitute into the house in her place. As Spider claws through the falsehoods he has woven around himself, he finally begins to arrive at the truth of his life and his mother's death ... The truth, which will take him to the very limits of his faltering sanity.
Notes: Based on the novel by Patrick McGrath.

Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, John Neville, Bradley Hall and Lynn Redgrave.

Censorship rating: MA 15+, persons under 15 years must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian.

First released as a motion picture Capitol Films, c2002.

DVD. Region 1, NTSC.