Film · Crime
The Silence of the Lambs
“To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman.”
19911h 59mDir Jonathan Demme8.3TMDB
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Top Cast
66 total
Jodie Foster
as Clarice Starling
Anthony Hopkins
as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Scott Glenn
as Jack Crawford
Ted Levine
as Jame Gumb
Anthony Heald
as Dr. Frederick Chilton
Brooke Smith
as Catherine Martin
Diane Baker
as Senator Ruth Martin
Kasi Lemmons
as Ardelia Mapp
The scene we cut
Fava beans
"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti." Hannibal Lecter reads Clarice like a book.
Hopkins is on screen for just over sixteen minutes in the whole film and won Best Actor for it. The hiss after the chianti line was not scripted.
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