Spider's Web (2002 film)

Spider's Web is a 2002 American direct-to-video film directed by Paul Levine and starring Stephen Baldwin and Kari Wuhrer. The film, described as a "low-rent sex thriller",[1] was also produced by both Baldwin and Wuhrer, the latter of whom said of the film: "The pace of making this movie, it was extreme. It was the longest day imaginable".[2] Wuhrer's breast implants encapsulated during filming, which she noticed while preparing to film a nude scene, so she had them removed later that year.[3] She noted that both Levine and Baldwin were compassionate about her ordeal, and worked to continue filming in ways that would conceal the disfigurement.[3]

Spider's Web
Directed byPaul Levine
StarringStephen Baldwin and Kari Wuhrer
Release date
  • 12 November 2002 (2002-November-12) (United States)
Running time
88 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Clay Harding (Baldwin) recruits executive Lauren Bishop (Wuhrer) in a plot to steal $40 million from Harding's father Robert Harding (George Murdock). The pair devise a plot to steal Robert's passwords and set up a dummy corporation mimicking a company that Robert is interested in buying in order to divert his funds to a Swiss bank account. Clay secretly plans to double-cross Laura and allow her to take the blame for the theft, which she realizes when she discovers that a co-worker who had engineered her being fired from her job, Harry Burnham (Benjamin King), was Clay's college classmate. Clay murders Burnham and makes it look like a suicide. However, after a series of machinations on both sides, Lauren ultimately prevails, leaving the country with access to the money while Clay is left with nothing.

Cast
  • Stephen Baldwin (Clay Harding)
  • Kari Wuhrer Lauren Bishop
  • Benjamin King (Harry Burnham)
  • Scott Williamson (Doug Caulfield)
  • Michael Gregory (Manny Molka)
  • George Lazenby (Leland De Winter)
  • Tony Colitti (Det. Nick Perez)
  • George Murdock (Robert Harding)
  • Matt Borlenghi (Bob Smooth)
  • William L. Johnson (Conman Jerry)
  • Elizabeth Barondes (Mike)
  • Derek Basco (Gabe Yamada)
  • Joe Duer (Young Man)
  • Marykate Harris (Mrs. Wick; billed as Mary Kate Harris)
  • Jeanette Driver (Emily)
  • Ilyse Mimoun (Messenger)
  • Lavelle Roby (Miss Wilkins)
  • Robert Donavan (Older Man)
  • Monique Alexander (Young Woman)
  • Nellie Sciutto (Fran Crawford)
  • Vladimir Nemirovsky (Lazio)
  • Richard Gabai (Account Manager)
  • Anna Hsieh (Cyber Cafe Girl)
  • Christopher Birt (Plain Clothes Cop)
  • Tracy Britton (Receptionist)

Reception

The movie was critically panned as "boring", with one review summarizing it as repeated episodes of "some drama and story followed by nudity and sex which in the end makes this movie all about how sexy actress Kari Wuhrer is".[4] Scott Weinberg, writing for Apollo Guide, wrote "I suppose if a movie has entirely vanished from memory not 24 hours after it's been viewed, that's its own review right there".[5]

References
  1. Mick Martin, Marsha Porter, DVD & Video Guide 2005 (2004), p. 1043.
  2. Paul Kane, The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy (2015), p. 196.
  3. "A Hollywood Actress's Intimate Diary: Why I Took Out My Breast Implants". Glamour Magazine. September 2002. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
  4. "Deadly Boring Spider". The Movie Scene.
  5. "Spider's Web". Rotten Tomatoes (quoting Apollo Guide).
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