It took Spider-Man 40 years to make his movie debut, but this fast-paced entertainment is a surprisingly successful mix of spectacle and human-scale drama. Orphaned high-school senior Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) lives in Queens with his elderly Aunt May (Rosemary Harris) and Uncle Ben (Cliff Robertson), loved at home but snubbed by his cooler peers. Peter nurses a hopeless crush on the pretty, vivacious girl-next-door, Mary Jane Watson (Kirsten Dunst), who's too busy with her thriving social life to notice his infatuation, and pals around with another misfit, poor little rich-boy Harry Osborn (James Franco). Harry's father — ruthless industrialist Norman Osborn (Wil...
Released:
2002
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
121 mins