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Spider

2002

David Cronenberg

Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave ...

6.6

7,508

Drama 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.

	Author	Review
Spain	FilmAffinity	A psychological thriller that got important awards and received good reviews, especially by Cronenberg fans. However, it was released in only a few theaters at the year's end by distributor Sony Pictures Classics.	NON
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The details of the film and of the performances are meticulously realized; there is a reward in seeing artists working so well. But the story has no entry or exit, and is cold, sad and hopeless (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"An intensely controlled, beautifully designed and fascinatingly acted account of Patrick McGrath's original novel (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Edelstein Slate	"What goes wrong with Spider is pretty basic: The audience has no idea why it was made."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Fiennes is at his best in 'Spider', rising to the challenge of a dark, demanding role (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"As harrowing a portrait of one man's tormented isolation as the commercial cinema has produced."	POS

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