Spider
(2002)
Directed by:
David Cronenberg
Writing
credits:
Patrick McGrath (II) (novel)
Patrick McGrath (II) (screenplay)
Producers/Financiers:
Capitol
Films (click to view their site)
Artists Independent Network and Grosvenor Park
Metropolitan Films and Helkon SK, distributing the film in the U.K.
Alliance Atlantis' Odeon Films (Canadian Rights)
Genre: Thriller (more)
Plot Summary:
| 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. |
Production
Notes/Status: Post-production
Credited cast overview:
Ralph Fiennes .... Spider
Gabriel Byrne .... Bill Clegg
Miranda Richardson
Lynn Redgrave
John Neville
Country: Canada
Language: English
Color: Color
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