Directed by:
Inon ShampanierCinematography:
Zach KupersteinComposer:
Ariel BlumenthalCast:
Stefania LaVie Owen, Lili Taylor, Peyton List, Max Casella, David Rasche, Ian Nelson, Jennifer Cody, Tom Papa, Michael Cyril Creighton, Steve Abbott (more)Plots(1)
All Melanie wants is a normal senior year, but her life turns upside down when her mother Dawn begins to suffer from paranoid delusions. Paper Spiders is a bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness. Recently-widowed Dawn experiences growing anxiety as her daughter Melanie plans to move away for college. An altercation with a hostile new neighbor aggravates Dawn's mental condition and she begins to show signs of paranoid delusions. Melanie attempts a series of interventions to help her mom, but Dawn's paranoia spirals out of control. Challenging Dawn's reality of persecution threatens to destroy their loving relationship. Melanie is forced to make the toughest of choices as she struggles to keep her mother afloat. (Cinemax)
(more)Cast
Stefania LaVie Owen
USA
Best movies:
The Lovely Bones (2009)
Don't Make Me Go (2022)
Paper Spiders (2020)
Lili Taylor
USA
Best movies:
Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001) (TV movie)
The Conjuring (2013)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Peyton List
USA
Best movies:
Remember Me (2010)
Then Came You (2018)
Batman: Hush (2019)
Max Casella
USA
Best movies:
The Night Of (2016) (series)
Ed Wood (1994)
Vinyl (2016) (series)
David Rasche
USA
Best movies:
Manhattan (1979)
Columbo (1971) (series)
Men in Black III (2012)
Ian Nelson
USA
Best movies:
The Judge (2014)
Freak Show (2017)
The Best of Me (2014)
Jennifer Cody
USA
Best movies:
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Shrek the Musical (2013)
Paper Spiders (2020)
Tom Papa
USA
Best movies:
Air (2023)
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009)
Behind the Candelabra (2013) (TV movie)
Michael Cyril Creighton
Best movies:
Spotlight (2015)
American Fiction (2023)
The Post (2017)
Steve Abbott
Best movies:
Marshall (2017)
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
Death of a President (2006)
Tanya Thompson
Best movies:
Paper Spiders (2020)
The Holiday Fix Up (2021) (TV movie)
Quinn Hemphill
Best movies:
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (2024)
Paper Spiders (2020)
Killer Competition (2020)