Arachnophobia (film)
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| Directed by | Frank Marshall |
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Kathleen Kennedy Richard Vane |
| Screenplay by | Don Jakoby Wesley Strick |
| Story by | Don Jakoby Al Williams |
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| Music by | Trevor Jones |
| Cinematography | Mikael Salomon |
| Edited by | Michael Kahn |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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110 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $31 million |
| Box office | $53.2 million |
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| Released | July 18, 1990 (original release) March 19, 1996 (re-release) |
| Studio | Evergreen Recording Studios |
| Label | Hollywood Records |
Arachnophobia is a 1990 American thriller-comedy film directed by Frank Marshall and starring Jeff Daniels and John Goodman. It was the first film released by The Walt Disney Studios' Hollywood Pictures label, as well as being the directorial debut of Marshall.
The story centers on a newly discovered Venezuelan spider being transported to a small American town that produces a new species of deadly spiders, which begin killing the town's residents one by one.
Shooting took place in Venezuela and California and the film was released in the United States on July 18, 1990. It was a modest commercial success, gaining $53.21 million at the box office. It received generally positive reviews from critics.
Entomologist Dr. James Atherton searches the Amazon rainforest with the hope of discovering new species of insects and arachnids finding a very aggressive new species of spider. The spider is captured and chloroformed for research; and is later revealed to be lacking sex organs, thus making it a drone, or soldier. A nature photographer, Jerry Manley unknowingly has a fertile (non-drone) male spider of the same species jump into his backpack, that night sneaking into his sleeping bag and biting him. Manley has a massive seizure from the venom and dies. The remainder of the scientists take his body back to the United States, blaming Manley's death on a fever. The spider crawls into the box and is sealed in with the corpse.
Manley's body arrives at the funeral home in his small town of Canaima, California. The spider makes it outside, reaching the barn of the Jennings family. Ross Jennings is a family physician, who had moved to the town from San Francisco. He faces a lack of patients due to elderly rival Sam Metcalf, who was supposed to retire and shift his patients to Ross, but decided to maintain his practice. The Amazonian spider mates with a female domestic house spider and makes a nest in Jennings' barn, producing hundreds of infertile drone offspring, all of which have a lethal bite. Ross, along with his son Tommy, has arachnophobia, making them targets of ridicule to wife Molly and daughter Shelly.
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