The Silence of the Lambs

• 8.349 Crime
• 1991-02-14
• 119 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Jodie Foster (Clarice Starling) Anthony Hopkins (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) Scott Glenn (Jack Crawford) Ted Levine (Jame Gumb) Anthony Heald (Dr. Frederick Chilton) Brooke Smith (Catherine Martin) Diane Baker (Senator Ruth Martin) Kasi Lemmons (Ardelia Mapp) Frankie Faison (Barney) Tracey Walter (Lamar)

Director:

Jonathan Demme

Writer:

Ted Tally