MOVIE · 2002

Spider

DramaMysteryThriller98 min

Released from a mental institution, Ralph Fiennes is Spider, a withdrawn man sent to a halfway house where the streets of his childhood begin to trigger fractured memories. Under the stern eye of Mrs. Wilkinson (Lynn Redgrave), he drifts between the present and scenes from his boyhood, with Miranda Richardson and Gabriel Byrne looming large as his mother and father in those recollections. Directed by David Cronenberg, the film stays close to Spider’s damaged perspective as familiar places, old family wounds, and his own uncertain memories start to blur together.