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Spider (2002)
Country of Origin: Canada/France/UK
Year of Production: 2002
Running Times: 98 mins
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio:
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Grosvenor Park Productions/Spider Films/Capitol
Films/Artists Independent Network/UGC International/Metropolitan
Films/Helkon SK/Davis Films
Executive Producers: Jane Barclay, Charles Finch, Simon Franks, Victor
Hadida, Sharon Harel, Zygi Kamasa, Martin Katz, Hannah Leader, Luc Roeg
Producers: Catherine Bailey, David Cronenberg, Samuel Hadida
Line Producer: Guy Tannahill
Associate Producers: Maria Aitken, Sanjay Burman
SCRIPT
Script: Patrick McGrath, David Cronenberg
Novel: Patrick McGrath
DIRECTION
Director: David Cronenberg
1st Assistant Director: Walter Gasparovic
2nd Assistant Directors: Penny Charter, Sara Desmond
2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Ben Howard
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Peter Suschitzky
Clapper Loader: Sky Sharrock
Colour Timer: Ricardo Olivero
Camera Equipment: Panavision (UK)
Lighting: Lee Lighting Ltd
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Ronald Sanders
Assistant Editor: Tad Seaborn
Negative Cutter: Catherine Rankin
MUSIC
Music: Howard Shore
SOUND
Production Sound Mixer: Glen Emile Gauthier
Sound Mixer: John Midgley
Boom Operator: June Prinz
Re-Recording Mixer: Christian T. Cooke
Re-Recording Assistants: Eliot Crackower, Craig Mann
Sound Editor: Tony Currie
Foley Recording Mixer: Don White
Foley Recording Assistant: Cornelia Mariana Gavrilescu
Sound Maintenance: Paul Munro
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designers: Denise Cronenberg, Brenda Gilles
Costume Coordinator: Natalie Bronfman
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Coordinator: Daniel White
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Andrew Sanders
Art Director: Arv Grewal
2nd Assistant Art Director: Jon Hunter
Set Decorator: Clive Thomasson
Property Master: David Balfour
Production Buyer: Marshall Aver
Lead Man: Carlos Caneca
MISCELLANEOUS
Location Production Assistant: John Rakich
LOCATIONS
Location Managers: David Broder, Barb Pullan
CASTING
Casting: Suzanne Smith
Extras Casting: The Casting Collective Ltd
CAST
Ralph Fiennes (Spider)
Miranda Richardson
(Yvonne/Mrs Cleg/Mrs Wilkinson)
Gabriel Byrne (Bill Cleg)
Bradley Hall (young Spider)
Lynn Redgrave (Mrs Wilkinson)
John Neville (Terrence)
Gary Reineke (Freddy)
Philip Craig (John)
PLOT SUMMARY
Dennis Clegg, known as Spider, been incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital
for more than 20 years suffering for schizophrenia. He's released despite
not being fully recovered yet and begins to lose whatever tenuous grip
he had on reality.
AVAILABILITY
Canada
Theatrical Distributor: Odeon Films
AWARDS
2002
Cannes Film Festival, France
Golden Palm (David Cronenberg) - nominated
TIMELINE
2002
May
21: France - shown at the Cannes Film Festival
November
Day Unknown: UK - theatrical release
6: France - theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
The only thing worse than losing your mind... is finding
it again.
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Empire no.171 (September 2003) p.142
(UK)
illustrated DVD review
Exposure Autumn 2001 pp.8-9 (UK)
illustrated article, interview
Film-Echo/Filmwoche no.21 (22 May 2004)
p.26 (Germany)
illustrated credits, review
Hollywood Reporter vol.369 no.9 (17 July
2001) p.34
credits, production details
Hollywood Reporter vol.369 no.29 (14
August 2001) p.34
credits, production details
Screen International no.1321 (24 August
2001) p.33 (UK)
credits, production details
Screen International no.1326 (28 September
2001) pp.1, 2 (UK)
illustrated article
Screen International no.1338 (4 January
2002) p.26 (UK)
illustrated credits, production report
Screen International no.1359 (14 June
2002) p.25 (UK)
illustrated credits, review
Sight and Sound vol.12 no.7 (July 2002)
pp.12-18 (UK)
illustrated article
OTHER SOURCES
55th Cannes Film Festival Catalogue (15-26
May 2002) pp.56-57
illustrated credits, synopsis, note
KEYWORDS
book into film, hallucinations, mental illness, psychiatric hospitals,
schizophrenia
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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