

The untold story begins.
A teenage Peter Parker grapples with both high school and amazing super-human crises as his alter-ego Spider-Man.
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Character
Classical in form, earnest, contemporary and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
Who loves it, who doesn't
30 profiled raters. Loved most by The Genre Devotees; disliked most by The Ironists.
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Cast
- Andrew GarfieldSpider-Man / Peter Parker
- Emma StoneGwen Stacy
- Rhys IfansThe Lizard / Dr. Curt Connors
- Denis LearyCaptain Stacy
- Martin SheenUncle Ben
- Sally FieldAunt May
- Irrfan KhanRajit Ratha
- Campbell ScottRichard Parker
- Embeth DavidtzMary Parker
- Chris ZylkaFlash Thompson
Crew
- Marc WebbDirector
- James VanderbiltScreenplay
- Alvin SargentScreenplay
- Steve KlovesScreenplay
- John SchwartzmanDirector of Photography
- James HornerOriginal Music Composer
- Alan Edward BellEditor
- Pietro ScaliaEditor
- Laura ZiskinProducer
- Avi AradProducer
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