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The Silence of the Lambs overview
...ranks in these movie lists:
- Greatest Thrillers (#1)
- Academy Award Winners for Best Picture (#6)
- Scariest Non-Horror Movies (#2)
- The Horror of Anthony Hopkins (#1)
- Great Movies With Greater Monsters (#1)
- Top Twenty Greatest Escapes (#8)
- Jodie Foster's Best Movies (#1)
- Top Ten Mind-Game Movies (#1)
- The Best of Anthony Hopkins (#1)
- Favorite Movies 1990s (#7)
- Movies That Keep You Guessing (#4)
Synopsis:
In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then removes the skin from their bodies. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism.
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Movie Details:
- Director: Jonathan Demme
- Studio: Strong Heart, Orion
- Year: 1991
- Run Time: 118 minutes
- Country: USA
- Language: English
- MPAA Rating: R
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Thriller
- Filmed in: Color
- Release: 1991 02 14 (USA)












