Spider
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Set in London’s East End in the 1960s and 1980s, Spider tells the story of a deeply disturbed boy, Spider, who “sees” his father brutally murder his mother and replace her with a prostitute, Yvonne. 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 into a halfway house, where he receives little care or attention from the landlady, Mrs. Wilkinson. Unsupervised, Spider stops taking his medication and starts revisiting his childhood haunts. His attempts to sustain his delusional account of his past begin to unravel and he spirals into fresh madness.
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David Cronenberg
Director
Toronto-born writer-director David Cronenberg has earned international acclaim as an auteur for his unique and provocative body of work. His 1999 feature eXistenZ was well-received at the Cannes and Berlin film festivals,
as was his controversial 1996 feature Crash, which was awarded a Special Jury Prize at Cannes for its “audacity and innovation.” The film also collected five Canadian Genie Awards, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Cronenberg’s other award-winning features, many of which he also wrote, include M. Butterfly (1993), Naked Lunch (1991), Dead Ringers (1988), The Fly (1986), The Dead Zone (1983), Videodrome (1983) and Scanners (1981). He has also worked extensively in television and has appeared as an actor in several films.
35 mm
1 x 98 minutes
Colour
Aspect ratio
1.77
Original version in English |
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Producers
David Cronenberg
Catherine Bailey
Executive Producers
Martin f. Katz
Luc Roeg
Charles Finch
Jane Barclay
Sharon Harel
Hannah Leader
Producer
Guy Tannahill
Director
David Cronenberg
Scriptwriter
Patrick McGrath
Based on his novel
Adapté de son roman
Director of Photography
Peter Suschitzky
Editing
Ronald Sanders
Sound Editors
Wayne Griffin
David Evans
Production Designer
Arvinder Grewal
Lucy Richardson
Production Designer
Andrew Sanders
Costumes
Denise Cronenberg
Music
Howard Shore
Cast
Ralph Fiennes
Miranda Richardson
Gabriel Byrne
John Neville
Lynn Redgrave
Bradley Hall
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Production
Spider Productions Ltd.
5 Hazelton Ave., 4th Floor
Toronto Ontario
M5R 2E1
Canada
(416) 926-1815
(416) 926-9594
martin.katz@grosvenorpark.com
www.grosvenorpark.com
Coproduction – United Kingdom
Spider Films Ltd.
110 Gloucester Ave.
Primrose Hill
London
NW1 8JA
England
44-20-7483-3330
44-20-7483-2155
cbltd@aol.com
Distribution – Canada
Odeon Films Inc.
121 Bloor St. E.
Suite 1500
Toronto Ontario
M4W 3M5
Canada
(416) 967-1174
(416) 934-6999
info@allianceatlantis.com
www.allianceatlantis.com
International distribution
Capitol Films
23 Queensdale Place
London
W11 4SQ
England
207 471 6000
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