In the Spider's Web (2001)

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Movie
German title In the spider's web
Original title Along Came a Spider
Country of production United States , Germany , Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
Rod
Director Lee Tamahori
script James Patterson ,
Marc Moss
production David Brown ,
Joe Wizan
music Jerry Goldsmith
camera Matthew F. Leonetti
cut Nicolas De Toth ,
Neil Travis
occupation

In the Spider's Web (original title Along Came a Spider ) is the film adaptation of the novel Tomorrow Children will be something by James Patterson . It's about ... because they are there to kiss about the second film adaptation of a bestseller about the criminal psychologist , prominent book authors and police officer Alex Cross by James Patterson.

action

Megan is the young daughter of the relatively unknown US Senator Hank Rose. She attends an elite school, which is also attended by the Russian President's son , with whom she is friends. One day, while attending school, Megan is kidnapped by her teacher, Gary Soneji . He removes his mask and hides Megan on a motorboat. Jezzie Flannigan, a Secret Service agent who was hired to protect Megan and who is responsible for security during class, was unable to prevent the kidnapping with her team.

The police officer Alex Cross, who actually retired from active duty a few months ago because of a failed decoy action and is still suffering from the death of his colleague at the time, is dragged into this case against his will. Gary Soneji contacts Cross by phone. As it turns out in the course of the film, he's not interested in ransom , but in media attention and above all that of Alex Cross, who is considered one of the best profilers. Soneji is obsessed with committing a crime of the century and becoming as famous as Bruno Richard Hauptmann , the alleged kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby. Cross decides to work with Flannigan to resolve the case. Together they can prevent Soneji from carrying out his actual plan: with the help of classmate Megan, kidnap the Russian president's son. But Flannigan is playing wrong - Soneji is just a tool for their plans. Her accomplice poses as Soneji, demands and receives diamonds worth 10 million US dollars as a ransom for Megan.

When Cross and Flannigan are in Flannigan's apartment, the armed Soneji suddenly appears and has a short conversation with them. Then the situation escalates and Cross has to shoot Soneji when he attacks him and Flannigan. This initially seems to destroy the only way to find out where Megan is. The girl continues to disappear. But Cross had deliberately incorrectly spoken of the 12 million ransom, and Soneji did not contradict it. Cross realizes that it was not Soneji who made the ransom demand. He gets on the track of Flannigan and her partner, who now have Megan in their power. Cross can determine the whereabouts of the kidnappers. In the meantime, Flannigan has shot her accomplice there, whom she wants to make the sole culprit. When she wants to kill Megan too, Cross can prevent this by shooting Flannigan. Cross brings little Megan to her parents.

criticism

"Trickly constructed thriller, consistently reduced to the entertainment function of a genre film and, as such, excellently staged."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

  • Composer Jerry Goldsmith received a Broadcast Music Incorporated Film Music Award.
  • Leading actor Morgan Freeman was nominated for the NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture category.
  • The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

backgrounds

The production of the film cost about 28 million US dollars and played worldwide about 105 million US dollars.

The film was shot from late February to May 2000 in Baltimore , Vancouver and Washington . The end of the film was re-shot because the first version was not well received by the test audience. In the third Patterson film adaptation from 2012, Morgan Freeman no longer took over the role of investigator Alex Cross , but Tyler Perry . The scene of the ransom delivery in the subway was taken from the novel Roses Are Red .

Text output

  • Patterson: In the spider's web. Übers. Dietlind Kaiser, Ullstein, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3548252524 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for In the Spider's Web . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ In the spider's web. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 13, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ JP's box office
  4. ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=alongcameaspider.htm
  5. ^ IMDb Filming Dates
  6. ↑ IMDb locations
  7. ↑ a b c IMDb