Spider-Man

"Go for the ultimate spin."

2002 2h 1m EN

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7.4

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90%

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7.4

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★7.4TMDB · 21,548🍅90%Rotten Tomatoes●73Metacritic★7.4IMDB · 958,249

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Synopsis

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After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man.

“Go for the ultimate spin.”

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Cast

Tobey Maguire
Spider-Man / Peter Parker
Willem Dafoe
Green Goblin / Norman Osborn
Kirsten Dunst
Mary Jane Watson
James Franco
Harry Osborn
Cliff Robertson
Ben Parker
Rosemary Harris
May Parker
J.K. Simmons
J. Jonah Jameson
Joe Manganiello
Flash Thompson

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Sam Raimi
Writers: David Koepp, Steve Montal, Mark Andrews
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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$139M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 5.9× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 24 years ago.

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4 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Spider-Man Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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5 / 8

CAST

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311+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Sam Raimi, shot by Don Burgess. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Danny Elfman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Arthur Coburn shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Sam Raimi directs. Don Burgess behind the camera. Danny Elfman scores. Arthur Coburn cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1$139M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 5.9× over at the box office.
3Released 24 years ago.
4Part of the "Spider-Man Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
5311+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Sam Raimi, shot by Don Burgess. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Danny Elfman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Arthur Coburn shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Tobey Maguire and Willem Dafoe and Kirsten Dunst carry the top of the cast.
10Marketing tagline: "Go for the ultimate spin.".
11IMDB entry: tt0145487 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
12The top-rated still from this film on TMDB has 5 community votes — a signal the frame composition stuck with viewers.
1321,548 TMDB user ratings logged — serious cultural footprint.
14Classified under 17 themes, including "new york city", "adolescence", "photographer", "loss of loved one".
15Released under 23 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Don Burgess
Original score: Danny Elfman
Editing: Arthur Coburn
Production design: Neil Spisak
Costume design: James Acheson
Makeup / hair: Janice Alexander
VFX supervisor: Karen E. Goulekas
Sound: Stephen Hunter Flick
Stunt coordinator: Tony Ching Siu-Tung
Runtime: 121 min · 2h 1m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.78:1 (16:9)
Status: Released
Budget: $139,000,000
Box office: $821,708,551
Return: 591% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Spider-Man (2002)
Rotten Tomatoes: 90% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 73/100
IMDB rating: 7.4/10 · 958,249 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

Nominated for 2 Oscars. 17 wins & 65 nominations total

Part of

Spider-Man Collection

A superhero film series based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. The series is centered on Peter Parker, an academically gifted but socially inept freelance photographer who gets bitten by a genetically modified spider and gains spider-like abilities, all of which he uses to fight crime as a spider-masked vigilante, learning for himself that with great power comes great responsibility.

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tmdb440066252019-03-09
★ 9/10
Sam Raimi's Spider-Man captures the spirit of the comic book hero and it's still one of my all time favourite superhero movies. It lays out the perfect blueprint for a superhero origin story that I love revisiting every year or so. I've always been able to relate to Peter Parker growing up. Tobey Maguire and Co. delivered a great interpretation of the characters in a way that still can not be matched.
Justin Lopez2019-11-06
So many Spiderman movies out there but this will always be the original. Though the other ones have better CGI and maybe action sequences, none can match the plot this one has.
LoganWright2019-11-07
This is one of the few films that you can watch when you're bored and still be excited about what's going to happen (even though you've watched it over and over already and you've memorized almost all of the lines).