United States
1991
118 minutes
Color
1.85:1
English
13
From Thomas Harris’s novel, director Jonathan Demme explodes and reconstructs a classic genre, laying a foundation of emotional and political commitment beneath a perfectly constructed psychological thriller. Fourteen years after her controversial role in Taxi Driver, Jodie Foster finally makes the transformation from helpless victim to rescuing hero in this dark, gender-bending fairy tale of an American obsession: serial murder. As Hannibal “the Cannibal” Lecter, Anthony Hopkins is the archetypal antihero—cultured, quick-witted, uncontainable—a portrait of all the sharpest human faculties gone diabolically wrong. Winner of five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay Adaptation for Ted Tally.
| Clarice Starling | Jodie Foster |
| Dr. Hannibal Lecter | Anthony Hopkins |
| Jack Crawford | Scott Glenn |
| Jame Gumb | Ted Levine |
| Dr. Frederick Chilton | Anthony Heald |
| Catherine Martin | Brooke Smith |
| Senator Ruth Martin | Diane Baker |
| Ardelia Mapp | Kasi Lemmons |
| Lt. Boyle | Charles Napier |
| Lamar | Tracy Walter |
| FBI Director | Roger Corman |
| Director | Jonathan Demme |
| Producer | Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon and Ron Bozman |
| Screenplay | Ted Tally |
| Editing | Craig McKay |
| Cinematography | Tak Fujimoto |
| Production Design | Kristi Zea |
| Music | Howard Shore |
It may be news to many, but in addition to creating such larger-than-life characters as The Silence of the Lambs’ Hannibal Lecter and Howards End’s Henry Wilcox (not to mention, once upon a time, the titular protagonist in James Ivory’s Surviving Picasso), Welsh thespian . . .
A director who knows his genres, Jonathan Demme has never been able to resist turning them inside out. Starting in the film industry as a publicist, Demme was soon hired by Roger Corman as a scriptwriter and then as a director. Corman’s rules for filmmaking—which mandate either the revelation . . .
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