Spider is a movie directed by David Cronenberg in 2002 and based on the book of the same name by Patrick McGrath, first published in 1990. The movie features Ralph Fiennes, Miranda Richardson, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, John Neville, Bradley Hall, and others.
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Storyline
Spider is the story of Dennis Cleg, a man who is given a room in a halfway house catering to mentally disturbed people. The son, as a grown man, seems to recreate in his memory the buildup to his father’s murder of his mother by hitting her on the head with a spade with the passive support of a prostitute he is involved with, who then moves into the house and is presented as his mother.
Movie vs Book
Year
2002
Minutes
98
Movie Rate
6.80
Source: IMDb
Movie
Spider
Director: David Cronenberg
Country: Canada
Year: 2002
Length: 1h38m
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Year
1990
Pages
224
Book Rate
7.54
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Book
Spider
Author: Patrick McGrath
Country: USA
First published in: 1990
Length: 224 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination.”
YANN MARTEL (Writer)
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