The Amazing Spider-Man


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A gifted teenager investigates the secrets hidden in his dead parents' past, leading him to a mysterious corporation and an incident that imbues him with superhuman powers. A personal tragedy drives him to use his new-found abilities to fight crime, and he is soon drawn into a deadly battle against a former colleague of his father, who has undergone a devastating transformation of his own. Superhero adventure reboot, starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans


2012 HD subtitles 16x9 violent-scenes rating-with-pin
Adventure Movie/Drama Science Fiction

Cast & Crew

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Andrew Garfield (Actor) .. Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Emma Stone (Actor) .. Gwen Stacy
Rhys Ifans (Actor) .. Dr Curt Connors/The Lizard
Martin Sheen (Actor) .. Uncle Ben
Sally Field (Actor) .. Aunt May
Denis Leary (Actor) .. Capt Stacy
Irrfan Khan (Actor) .. Rajit Ratha
Embeth Davidtz (Actor) .. Mary Parker
Marc Webb (Director)

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Andrew Garfield (Actor) .. Peter Parker/Spider-Man
Born: August 20, 1983 in Los Angeles
Best Known For: The Amazing Spider-Man movies.
Early-life: Andrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles on August 20, 1983 to Lynn and Richard. He has an English mother and an American father. His family moved to Epsom in Surrey when he was three. Andrew became interested in acting from an early age and joined a youth theatre workshop group in Epsom. He went on to attend the Central School of Speech and Drama. Early success came in 2004 when he won a Manchester Evening News award for best newcomer for his performance in Kes at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre.
Career: Garfield made his TV debut in 2005, appearing in Channel 4 teen drama Sugar Rush. Further TV work followed in Trial & Retribution, Doctor Who, Boy A and the Red Riding trilogy. In 2009, he made the switch to the big screen with a supporting role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. Roles in Never Let Me Go (2010) and The Social Network (2010) followed, and his big break came in 2010 when he was cast in the lead role in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). In 2012, he made his Broadway debut in Death of a Salesman. He returned as the web-slinger in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014).
Quote: "I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain."
Trivia: Garfield has dual citizenship in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Emma Stone (Actor) .. Gwen Stacy
Born: November 06, 1988 in Scottsdale, Arizona
Best Known For: The Amazing Spider-Man.
Early-life: Born Emily Jean Stone in Scottsdale, Arizona, on November 6, 1988, she began acting with the Valley Youth Theatre in Phoenix, where she made her stage debut in a production of The Wind in the Willows. In 2004, she moved with her mother to Los Angeles, where she was home schooled so that she could attend auditions during the day.
Career: Stone changed her name to Emma when she registered for the Screen Actors Guild as an actor already existed with the name Emily Stone. She launched her TV career after winning the role of Laurie Partridge on VH1 talent competition In Search of the New Partridge Family. The subsequent TV series did not last beyond the pilot. She went on to appear in episodes of Medium, Malcolm in the Middle, Lucky Louie and Drive. She made her big-screen debut in Superbad (2007) and since then has appeared in a number of popular films such as Zombieland (2009), Easy A (2010), Crazy, Stupid Love (2011), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) and its 2014 sequel and Gangster Squad (2013). She voiced the character Eep in The Croods (2013).
Quote: "I get a lot of questions about hair colour. People are very into talking about hair."
Trivia: Stone has been in a relationship with The Amazing Spider-Man co-star Andrew Garfield since mid-2011.
Rhys Ifans (Actor) .. Dr Curt Connors/The Lizard
Born: July 28, 1968 in Ruthin, Wales
Best Known For: Spike in Notting Hill.
Early-life: Rhys Owain Evans was born on July 22, 1968, in Ruthin, Wales. Welsh is his first language. He's the son of two teachers, and has a brother, Llyr, who's also an actor. Ifans changed his name when he was 13, "just to be difficult and awkward". Around the same time he joined a youth theatre, and later moved to London to study acting at the Guildhall School.
Career: Ifans spent 18 months at the National Theatre and has also appeared at Manchester's Royal Exchange theatre. His first TV appearances were in Welsh-language programmes for S4C. In 1995, he made his movie debut in Streetlife. Two years later he appeared on the small screen in The Sin Eater and Trial and Retribution, and starred in the film Twin Town with his brother. Notting Hill made him a star in 1999. Since then he's featured in Kevin and Perry Go Large, Little Nicky, The 51st State, The Shipping News and Vanity Fair. His recent work includes Enduring Love, Hannibal Rising, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, The Boat That Rocked, Greenberg, Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang, and The Amazing Spider-Man.
Quote: "The Welsh are not made to go out in the sun. They start to photosynthesise."
Trivia: In 2012, he became patron of the Living Paths Society.
Martin Sheen (Actor) .. Uncle Ben
Born: August 03, 1940 in Dayton, Ohio
Best Known For: Being the patriarch of an acting family.
Early-life: Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez was born on August 3, 1940, in Dayton, Ohio. He's the seventh of 10 children from a poor, but close-knit, Catholic family. His Irish mother died when he was 11. He deliberately failed his college exams to pursue an acting career, much to his Spanish father's dismay. At 18, Sheen borrowed money from a priest to move to Manhattan, where he found employment as a curtain puller and prop man. He adopted his current name to avoid being typecast.
Career: Sheen toured Europe with the Living Theatre group in 1961 and starred on Broadway before moving to Hollywood. His big break came in Terrence Malick's 1973 cult classic Badlands. He had a heart attack while filming 1979's Apocalypse Now, and later became a passionate campaigner on human rights issues. He's since featured in projects such as Gandhi, miniseries Kennedy, Wall Street (alongside son Charlie) and Catch Me If You Can. Sheen starred as a White House aide in romantic comedy The American President, which led to him being cast as the US leader in acclaimed TV drama The West Wing. He had a small but eye-catching part in Oscar-laden cop movie The Departed. He has also starred in Bobby and The Way, both directed by his son Emilio Estevez. He played Ben Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
Quote: On his son Charlie's wild ways: "I absolutely believe that he'll come through it".
Trivia: Has played American presidents four times; Jed Bartlett on The West Wing (1999), in the TV movie Medusa's Child (1997), as John F. Kennedy in the miniseries Kennedy (1983), and as the "future" president (in a premonition) Greg Stilson in The Dead Zone (1983).
Sally Field (Actor) .. Aunt May
Born: November 06, 1946 in California
Best Known For: Playing Forrest Gump's mum.
Early-life: Sally Margaret Field was born on November 6, 1946, in California. Her father was a captain in the US army and her mother Margaret Field an actress, who appeared in many B-movies during the 1950s. Her parents divorced when she was five, and her mum married actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney, who would later encourage Field in her chosen career. She starred in various high school productions, and decided not to go to college after enrolling in a summer acting workshop at Columbia studios. In 1965, she beat hundreds of other aspiring young stars to win the title role in the TV show Gidget.
Career: Gidget lasted for only one series, but Field proved a hit with TV audiences and in 1967 was given the lead role in the sitcom The Flying Nun, which ran for three years. When that came to an end, she was afraid she would never be taken seriously and signed up to study at the prestigious Actors Studio. In 1976, she won an Emmy for her performance in TV movie Sybill and big-screen success soon followed in Smokey and the Bandit. In 1979, Field picked up the Best Actress Oscar for Norma Rae, going on to win a second five years later for Places in the Heart. Her career has since struggled to reach those heights, but Field has appeared in successful movies including Steel Magnolias, Forrest Gump and Say It Isn't So, and in 2001 won an Emmy for her recurring guest role in ER. She has since won further rave reviews for her role in US drama Brothers and Sisters. Her recent credits include Lincoln and The Amazing Spider-Man movies.
Quote: "Being an older actress, I may not be offered a whole lot of starring roles in movies, but I'm having so much fun doing things that I've never done before."
Trivia: She is an activist for gay rights.
Denis Leary (Actor) .. Capt Stacy
Born: August 18, 1957 in Worcester, Massachusetts
Best Known For: His volatile stand-up routines.
Early-life: Denis Colin Leary was born on August 18, 1957, in Worcester Massachusetts, the second of four children to Nora and John Leary, Irish immigrants who had grown up together. He originally wanted to be a baseball star, but that changed when he got kicked off his high school team because of poor marks. He studied at Emerson College in Boston, where he tried his hand at acting and writing. In 1990, he and his pregnant wife, Ann, flew to London to perform on the BBC comedy revue show Paramount City. That weekend, her waters broke prematurely. Their planned weekend trip became a stay of months, and Leary started to write a one-man comedy act.
Career: That resulting concert film No Cure for Cancer made him an instant star in Hollywood. He made a series of guest appearances on Jonathan Ross's show Saturday Zoo in 1993 and was snapped up for a series of movies cashing in on his wise-talking image. However, Demolition Man and Hostile Hostages failed to turn him into a superstar. In 1999, he played the New York cop trying to catch Pierce Brosnan in The Thomas Crown Affair remake. While researching that part, he was so inspired by the cop he hung around with, he created TV series The Job. He co-produced and helped write the Johnny Depp movie Blow, and also provided voiceovers for the films A Bug's Life and Ice Age. He's a driving force behind The Leary Firefighters Foundation after his first cousin and a childhood friend were killed tackling a fire in his hometown. He played veteran firefighter Tommy Gavin in American drama Rescue Me from 2004 to 2011. Issues dealt with in the series included post 9/11 trauma, and the final episode aired fours days before the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
Quote: "I'm sick of my generation getting called the TV generation. 'Well all you guys do is watch TV.' What did you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get shot live on TV one Sunday morning, we were afraid to change the channel for the next 30 years."
Trivia: Leary provides the voice of Diego in the Ice Age movies.
Irrfan Khan (Actor) .. Rajit Ratha
Born: January 07, 1967 in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Best Known For: Life of Pi, Jurassic World, Slumdog Millionaire and Inferno.
Early-life: Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan was born in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, on January 7, 1967 to Begum and Jagirdar. In 1984, Irrfan earned a scholarship to study at the National School of Drama in New Delhi. He went on to star in a number of TV serials on Indian TV.
Career: Khan's big break came in in 2001 when he played the lead in Asif Kapadia's The Warrior. It won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the Bafta Film Awards. His first Bollywood lead came in the 2005 film Rog. Since then, he has starred in a number of Bollywood and English-language films. His credits include Slumdog Millionaire (2008), New York, I Love You (2009), Paan Singh Tomar (2012), The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), Life of Pi (2012), Jurassic World (2015) and Inferno (2016). He voiced the character Baloo in the Hindi localisation of The Jungle Book (2016).
Quote: "I often visualised giving my mother this big black suitcase crammed with notes like those gangsters do in our masala flicks."
Trivia: In 2015, Khan became a brand ambassador for a campaign run by the state government of Rajasthan.
Embeth Davidtz (Actor) .. Mary Parker
Marc Webb (Director)

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