Spider




Directed by David Cronenberg
Screenplay by Patrick McGrath
Rated R for Sexuality, brief violence and language

Cast:

Ralph Fiennes as Spider
Lynn Redgrave as Mrs. Wilkinson
Gabriel Byrne as Bill Cleg
Miranda Richardson as Yvonne/Mrs. Wilkson/Mrs. Cleg
John Neville as Terrence


A very disturbed man is released from a mental institution and sent to live in a special home for freed patients. Now able to walk around he visits his old neighborhood and starts to remember things of where his mother and father raised him. These reawakened memories begin to uncover the truth which seems to skip back and forth between the frightening and strange boy's adolescence to the shell of a man who is surviving the harsh reality of today.



This is a great movie albeit a strange tale well acted by Ralph Fiennes. I honestly couldn't wait to see this film and I was not disappointed and comprehended the sequence of how the film is placed together to sort of put you in the mind set of 'Spider' for you to view how he sees the world.

Rating: 4 of 5 stars

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