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Description | Information (i):  Show or Hide Description The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
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 Crime , Drama , Thriller
 Jodie Foster , Anthony Hopkins , Lawrence A. Bonney , Kasi Lemmons , Lawrence T. Wrentz , Scott Glenn , Anthony Heald , Frankie Faison , Don Brockett ,
Frank Seals Jr. , Stuart Rudin , Maria Skorobogatov , Jeffrie Lane , Leib Lensky , George 'Red' Schwartz
 Jonathan Demme
IMDB  118
 1991
 FBI trainee Clarice Starling works hard to advance her career| while trying to hide/put behind her West Virginia roots| of which if some knew| would automatically
classify her as being backward or white trash. After graduation| she aspires to work in the agency's Behavioral Science Unit under the leadership of Jack Crawford.
While she is still a trainee| Crawford asks her to question Dr. Hannibal Lecter| a psychiatrist imprisoned| thus far| for eight years in maximum security isolation
for being a serial killer who cannibalized his victims. Clarice is able to figure out the assignment is to pick Lecter's brains to help them solve another serial
murder case| that of someone coined by the media as Buffalo Bill| who has so far killed five victims| all located in the eastern US| all young women who are slightly
overweight (especially around the hips)| all who were drowned in natural bodies of water| and all who were stripped of large swaths of skin. She also figures that
Crawford chose ...
Director Jonathan Demme's smart, taut thriller teeters on the edge between psychological study and all-out horror, and benefits greatly from stellar performances by
Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster. |
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