| Release Date | 02 April 2001 |
| Budget | $28,000,000 |
| US Box Office | $74,000,000 |
| Tagline | The game is far from over. |
| Genre | Crime, Mystery, Thriller |
| Country | USAGermanyCanada |
| Filming Locations | Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
| Language | English, Russian |
| Sound Mix | Dolby Digital EX, DTS-ES |
| Color | Color |
| Film Type | Feature |
| Film Class | Police Detective Film, Psychological Thriller |
| Mood | Spellbinders |
| Themes | Kidnapping, Star Detectives |
| Tones | Menacing, Ominous, Creepy, Moody, Tense, Paranoid, Slick |
| Tags | Daughter, Detective, Kidnap, Psychology, Psychopath, Secret Service, Senator |
Along Came a Spider is a 2001 American mystery film directed by Lee Tamahori. The screenplay by Marc Moss was adapted from the 1993 novel of the same title by James Patterson, but many of the key plot elements of the book were eliminated. Along Came a Spider was the first book in Patterson's Alex Cross series, although the second one to be filmed, following Kiss the Girls in 1997.