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Spider-Man is a commercially successful film released in 2002, directed by Sam Raimi, which stars Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, and Willem Dafoe. It is an adaptation of the Marvel Comics comic book The Amazing Spider-Man, focusing on the title character's origins and his fight against his first major enemy, the Green Goblin, even while he struggles to show his feelings to his love, Mary Jane Watson.

Taglines:

With great power comes great responsibility.
There is a thin line between being an ordinary man and an extraordinary hero. In 2002, that line will be crossed.
Spider, spider, spider, go squish!
Get Ready For The Ultimate Spin!
Does whatever a spider can.
Do you want to know who I am? I'm Spider-Man.
Next Summer, One Hero will take you for the Ultimate Spin.
On May Third, the Entire World Will Connect to the Web.
A Gift. A Curse. A Destiny.
If somebody told you I was just your average guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.
This is my gift. It is my curse.
This spider gonna mess you up!
Go for the ultimate spin.
Turn your world upside down.

Plot summary

Protagonist Peter Parker is an intellectually precocious but socially inept teenager, too shy to approach Mary Jane, the girl next-door with whom he is smitten. His only friend is Harry Osborn, and even their friendship is tainted with jealousy by the fact that Harry's successful industrialist father, Norman Osborn, favors the brilliant Peter over Harry himself. Parker lives in New York City, in the Sunnyside neighborhood of the borough of Queens.

On a student tour of a college's genetics laboratory (with exterior scenes shot at New York City's Columbia University), Peter is bitten by an escaped experimental spider that has been bioengineered with various extraordinary and enhanced traits (i.e. jumping, webbing and reflexes). The spider's venom causes him to fall ill and he barely arrives home before collapsing into bed. After a difficult night's sleep while the venom alters his genetic makeup, he wakes up seemingly unharmed. However, he learns to his surprise that his body has changed dramatically and literally overnight. Over the course of that amazing first day, Peter learns that not only has he acquired perfect vision and muscle tone, but he has also gained greatly increased strength and agility, the ability to fire strands of strong webbing from his wrists, a "spider-sense" that gives him a psychic warning of danger, and the ability to extend a mass of minute barbs from his skin that allow him to adhere to surfaces. While he glories in these new abilities, which allow him to fend off bullies like Eugene "Flash" Thompson and jump from rooftop to rooftop with ease, his Aunt May and Uncle Ben, with whom the orphaned Peter lives, become concerned for their nephew's new strange and secretive behavior.

On a trip to the library, Uncle Ben confronts Peter about it and stresses to him that with maturity and power comes great responsibility. Peter snaps at him and secretly heads off to his true destination, a sports arena that promises a $3000 prize to any man who can last three minutes in the ring with the wrestler Bonesaw McGraw(played by Randy Savage). With some difficulty, Peter defeats the wrestler and is cheered as the "amazing Spider-Man." However, Peter is cheated by the fight promoter and, in retaliation, does not stop a criminal who has stolen the gate money.

Walking to the library with some satisfaction, he finds that his uncle has been shot by a carjacker in the street. Ben dies in front of him. Enraged, Peter dons his spider costume to pursue the murderer using his webs for transportation for the first time. He confronts the killer in an abandoned warehouse only to learn to his horror that the killer is the same criminal he could have stopped earlier. The terrified murderer falls out of a window to his death. Peter is wracked with guilt over the death of his uncle.

Months later, after graduation from high school, Peter decides to live up to his uncle's words, "with great power, comes great responsibility," by becoming a superhero fighting crime all over the city. He eventually learns a way to make it pay by supplying photographs of his alter-ego to Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson, who has a continual need for Spider-Man photos though he villifies the vigilante in his paper.

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