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[[File:spider_film_5929.jpg|frame|"What have you done?"]]
'''''Spider''''' is a 2002 psychological thriller from [[David Cronenberg]] starring Ralph Fiennes, Gabriel Byrne and Miranda Richardson, [[The Film of the Book|based on a book/screenplay]] by Patrick McGrath . It tells the story of a paranoid schizophrenic, the titular Spider (real name Dennis Clegg), who is released from a mental asylum into a halfway house in London. Here he relives his traumatic 1950's childhood as he tries to piece his life back together and come to terms with his madness.
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* [[Acting for Two]]: Miranda Richardson plays <s> two</s> three distinctly different roles in this film, [[Mind Screw|two of which were played by different actresses earlier in the film]]. Her performances are so distinctly different that many people don't notice the change on the first viewing.
* [[And That Little Girl Was Me]]: That we're seeing a [[Flash Back]] isn't made apparent until we see Adult Spider repeat and eventually pre-empt Boy Spider's lines.
* [[Award Snub]]: Despite almost universal praise from critics, the film was ignored at Cannes and the Oscars.
* [[Doing It for
* [[Double Entendre]]: A staple of Yvonne's [[Sarcasm Mode|highly cultured conversation]].
* [[Downer Ending]]: {{spoiler|Spider is taken back to the asylum after nearly killing his landlady. But he appears to be starting to come to terms with the fact he killed his own mother.}}
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* [[Funny Schizophrenia]] / [[The Mentally Disturbed]]: Averted; this is a ''very'' anti-Hollywood portrayal of mental illness.
* [[Growing the Beard]]: This was the film that marked Cronenberg's transition from [[Body Horror]] to intense psychological drama that would later be seen in ''[[A History of Violence]]'' and ''[[Eastern Promises]]''.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Harry Potter|Voldemort]] is the son of [[The Usual Suspects|Keaton]] and [[
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Dennis Cleg is nicknamed Spider by his mother because he likes to make webs with string. The movie is the story of his mental web being constructed and simultaneously unravelled.
* [[Mind Screw]]: [[Foregone Conclusion|It's a Cronenberg film]].
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[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:Spider (film)]]
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