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Dennis lives in a house for the mentally ill in London. Nicknamed 'Spider' by his mother he was diagnosed as schizophrenic twenty years ago but has never really recovered...
...Brilliantly realized....SPIDER is as harrowing a portrait of one man's tormented isolation as the commercial cinema has produced...
...An artful, carefully regulated explosion of craft led by Miranda Richardson and the that prince of prickly intensity, Ralph Fiennes...
...Cronenberg seems in total control and certainly gets sterling performances...
...The movie is well made and acted....There are considerable artists at work her: Cronenberg, Fiennes and Richardson....The details of the film and the performances are meticulously realized...
...Fiennes is at his best in SPIDER, rising to the challenge of a dark, demanding role...