''Spider's Web'' is a 2002 American direct-to-video film directed by

Paul Levine Paul J. Levine (born January 9, 1948) is an American author of crime fiction, particularly legal thrillers. Levine has written 22 mystery novels which include two series of books known by the names of the protagonists. The ''Jake Lassiter'' ser ...

and starring

Stephen Baldwin Stephen Andrew Baldwin (born May 12, 1966) is an American actor. He has appeared in the films ''Born on the Fourth of July (film), Born on the Fourth of July'' (1989), ''Posse (1993 film), Posse'' (1993), ''8 Seconds'' (1994), ''Threesome (1994 ...

and

Kari Wuhrer Kari Samantha Wuhrer (born April 28, 1967) is an American actress, model, and singer. She is known for her time as hostess of the MTV game show ''Remote Control (game show), Remote Control'' (1988–1989), her portrayals of Abby Holland, Abigail ...

. The film, described as a "low-rent sex thriller", was also produced by both Baldwin and Wuhrer.Paul Kane, ''The Hellraiser Films and Their Legacy'' (2015), p. 196.

Production

Wuhrer said of the film: "The pace of making this movie, it was extreme. It was the longest day imaginable". Wuhrer's

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s encapsulated during filming, which she noticed while preparing to film a

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, so she had them removed later that year. She noted that both Levine and Baldwin were compassionate about her ordeal, and worked to continue filming in ways that would conceal the disfigurement.

Plot

Clay Harding (Baldwin) recruits executive Lauren Bishop (Wuhrer) to help him steal $40 million from his father Robert Harding (

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). 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 and splitting it with a co-conspirator while Clay is believed to have murdered her.

Cast

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". 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".

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, tt0316653 2002 crime thriller films 2002 films 2002 direct-to-video films American crime thriller films 2000s English-language films 2000s American films English-language crime thriller films