Jonathan Demme directed this genre-bending thriller in which Jodie Foster portrays Clarice
Starling, an ambitious FBI student who is on the verge of graduation when her superior enlists her
help to track down a serial killer. When a senator’s daughter turns up missing, the feds determine
the most likely suspect is Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine), who is murdering women and doing something terrible with
their skin. But to find him, Starling is forced to enlist the aid of another notorious serial killer--the
terminally incarcerated ex-psychiatrist known as Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony
Hopkins). Hannibal is the only one who truly understands the killer's mind and motive. He agrees
to help Clarice, but in exchange, she has to tell him her deepest secrets. Slowly she wins Hannibal
over as he discovers that unlike most heroes, she is more moved by vulnerability than she is
attracted to power. Clarice's relentless search for the killer and Hannibal's unorthodox analysis are
chilling.
Directed by Jonathan Demme - Rated R
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