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Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
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. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into this case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out. Lecter does indeed know something of Buffalo Bill, but his information comes with a price: in exchange for telling what he knows, he wants to be housed in a more comfortable facility. More important, he wants to speak with Clarice about her past. He skillfully digs into her psyche, forcing her to reveal her innermost traumas and putting her in a position of vulnerability when she can least afford to be weak. The film mingles the horrors of criminal acts with the psychological horrors of Lecter's slow-motion interrogation of Clarice and of her memories that emerge from it. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
2/14/91
MPAA Rating
Rated R
Running Time
118 mins.
Locations
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Washington, DC, USA
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$130,650,794
Awards
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1991 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Editing award at the 1991 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1991 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1991 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 1991 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture - Drama award at the 1991 People's Choice Awards [Festival/Award Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1991 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1991 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Sound award at the 1991 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 1991 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1991 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director award at the 1991 Berlin International Film Festival [Fe Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1991 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 1991 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a David Lean Award award at the 1991 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or award at the 1991 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the 100 Greatest American Movies award at the 1998 American Film Institute [Festival/Awar Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actor award at the 1991 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture - Drama award at the 1991 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1991 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1991 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1991 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 1991 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama award at the 1991 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Best Director award at the 1991 New York Film Critics Circle [Festival Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1991 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1991 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
Distributor
- MGM Home Entertainment
- Orion
- Orion Home Video
- Orion Pictures
