Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
Charles Napier, Philip Ettington, Pat McNamara, Scott Glenn, George A. Romero, Brooke Smith, Ted Levine, Obba Babatundé, Anthony Hopkins, Frankie Faison, Jodie Foster, John W. Iwanonkiw, Ted Monte, Anthony Heald, Daniel von Bargen, Roger Corman, Tracey Walter, Cynthia Ettinger, Chuck Aber, Gene Borkan, Paul Lazar, Andre B. Blake, Diane Baker, Stuart Rudin, Brent Hinkley, Tommy Lafitte, Kasi Lemmons, Harry Northup, Danny Darst, Alex Coleman, Dan Butler, Ron Vawter, Lawrence A. Bonney, Lawrence T. Wrentz, Don Brockett, Frank Seals Jr., Masha Skorobogatov, Jeffrie Lane, Leib Lensky, George 'Red' Schwartz, Jim Roche, James B. Howard, Bill Miller, Kenneth Utt, Darla, Adelle Lutz, George Michael, Jim Dratfield, Stanton-Miranda, Rebecca Saxon, Steve Wyatt, David Early, Bill Dalzell, Chris Isaak, Josh Broder, Buzz Kilman, Lauren Roselli, Maria Skorobogatov, Lamont Arnold, John Hall
Trailer
Reviews
100
Variety
A mesmerizing thriller that will grip audiences from first scene to last.
100
San Francisco Chronicle
The interplay between Starling and Lector as they share an indefinable, dark understanding gives the film its unforgettable and unsettling power. [14 February 1991, Daily Notebook, p.E1]
100
Rolling Stone
The superbly crafted suspense thriller…slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror.
100
USA Today
A movie with this kind of haunting power comes along only once every decade or so. [20 February 1991, Life, p.11D]
90
Hopkins plays the cannibalistic doctor with a quiet, controlled erudition, lacing his performance with moments of black humor. His Lecter is a sort of satanic Sherlock Holmes whose spasms of violence are all the more terrifying because they erupt from beneath such an intelligent and refined mask.
