A film premiered at a 2002 Cannes Film Festival, and enjoyed important awards-buzz prior to existence dumped into two or three theaters at a years' prevent by its distributor, Sony Pictures Classics. Notwithstanding, a film enjoyed good deal plaudits by critics & especially by Cronenberg enthusiasts; indeed, a film garnered just a single award - however an significant of these - at a American Genie Awards: Best Director.

A stars of the film, Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson were laden with the people of foreign honours (particularly Richardson), however each missed retired on the risk of getting Academy Award nominations for Better Actor & Best Supporting Actress severally, when the unfortunate marketing campaign from either Sony Pictures.

Plot summary

Spider is an exploration of the mind of a schizophrenic & the story is told through the eyes of the boy whose father murdered his mother and replaced her by having the prostitute. Step by step, these are revealed that memory and reality can be pliable, unstable concepts and that cases may not develop unfolded when number one appeared.

Cast
Ralph Fiennes as Dennis "Spider" Cleg Bradley Hall as Dennis "Spider" Cleg (young) Miranda Richardson as Mrs. Horsefly (Dennis' mother) Gabriel Byrne as Bill Cleg (Dennis' father) Lynn Redgrave as Mrs. Wilkinson

Additional Information
Screenplay By: Patrick McGrath Producers: David Cronenberg, Samuel Hadida and Catherine Bailey Executive Producers: Luc Roeg, Charles Finch, Martin Katz, Jane Barclay, Sharon Harel, Hannah Leader, Zygi Kamasa, Simon Franks, and Victor Hadida Director of Photography: Peter Suschitzky Film Editor: Ronald Sanders Production Designer: Andrew Sanders Costume Designer: Denise Cronenberg Composer: Howard Shore Casting: Suzanne Smith

Running instance: 98 Minutes