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Synopsis: Dennis Clegg is in his thirties and lives in a halfway house for the mentally ill in London. Dennis, nicknamed "Spider" by his mother has been institutionalized with acute schizophrenia for some 20 years. He has never truly recovered, however, and as the story progresses we vicariously experience his increasingly fragile grip on reality.
Director(s): David Cronenberg
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  13 wins & 24 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
83
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
R
Year:
2002
98 min
$1,278,369
Website
353 Views


Getting an eyeful are you?

It's that fat tart... Yvonne Wilkinson

- Cheers Ernie.

- cheers.

Some fat tart... Yvonne Wilkinson...

Gin with...

Don't drink so fast, Bill.

Fancy another one?

No, not ready for another one yet...

He turns to me and I say:

Nora, Nora! (Yvonne giggles).

So a man comes to Nora.

she's on to him right away.

Next thing she's done half the

London Docks all over her.

She's standin there laughing.

What are you laughing at?, I says.

And that ain't all she said...

Look at him, more like Tom thumb

Tom thumb, I says,

what about... what about Tiny Tim?

How we laughed.

Now as for his Dad,

that's another story.

He was a right little toerag.

I wouldn't let him near me.

He told me it's air. I says...

I says I want the decorators in...

Know what I mean?

Yvonne Wilkinson

she made the first move.

- Yes?

- Plumber.

- What?

- I'm the plumber.

I believe you have trouble

with your pipes.

Eve!

Plumber.

Don't tread on the cats.

It's in here.

That the plumber?

Hello, Yvonne.

Hear that?

Wickin' the whole day?

All bloody day...

Don't it, Laura?

All bloody day...

You want air in those pipes?

We got air... bad air.

Bad air

...can't you smell it?

Yeah, but it's coming from your lavatory,

innit?

I sincerly hope so.

Yeah - Shocking,the state

of the plumbing in this place.

You going to do me pipes or what?

Had a letter from that

Sophia Loren this morning.

- Oh yeah...

- Yeah.

What she want then?

Usual thing.

What? The old... you know?

Exactly, right.

They're all the same.

All the same.

Still, what can you expect, really.

Mind you them Frenchies

know a thing or two.

I should say.

They had a Frenchie once with three tits.

- Get away...

- I swear To God.

One here, one here and one here.

Well you do surprise me.

Lovely girl.

Comes from Manchester.

You said a Frenchie.

Well that was a different one, innit?...

My mother had three tits.

A lovely woman your mother.

She did like a sailor?

She loved a sailor my mum...

Down to me, that was

How's that then?

Every time I smoke a fag...

My mum... has it off with a sailor.

- You smoke all The time.

- Well that's what I'm saying.

Ah!

Hello plumber.

What you say your name was?

Now, don't tell me.

Bill.

Always been one of my favorites.

Had a cat called Bill once.

Nippy out, eh? Glad I got me fur.

Do you like my fur?

Got it up the market...June.

Second hand.

Still, what's isn't these days...

I'm a bit second hand myself...

But you don't mind that do you, Bill?

You like that... don't ya?

A bit of second hand?

...lovely job you did on them pipes...

That is great out of them now

Smell didn't go away though

Alright plumber...lets have ya

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