With his Spider-Man alter-ego finally being accepted by the public, Peter Parker is finally beginning to find a balance between his college studies, work as a Daily Bugle photographer, romance with Mary Jane "M.J." Watson, and crime-fighting duties, until a mysterious dark force begins to affect him and threatens to destroy everything and everyone he cares about. Original. (A Marvel/Columbia Pictures film, written by Alvin Sargent, directed by Sam Raimi, releasing May 2007, starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, and others) (Science Fiction)