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-Jodie
Foster
-Anthony
Hopkins
Jodie
Foster
and
Anthony
Hopkins
will
likely
be
forever
associated
with
their
roles
in
this
bone-chilling
masterpiece,
based
on
the
novel
by
Thomas
Harris
and
directed
by
Jonathan
Demme.
FBI
trainee
Clarice
Starling
(Foster)
is
sent
by
her
supervisor
(Scott
Glenn)
to
interview
ferociously
intelligent
serial
killer
Hannibal
"The
Cannibal"
Lechter
(Hopkins)
at
his
cell
in a
Maryland
mental
hospital.
The
FBI
hopes
Lechter
can
provide
insight
into
the
mind
of
killer-at-large,
Buffalo
Bill
(Ted
Levine),
whose
current
abductee
happens
to
be
the
daughter
of a
senator.
Intrigued
by
Clairice,
Lechter
demands
information
about
her
personal
life
and
in
exchange
for
clues,
and
the
two
begin
to
form
a
strangely
intimate
connection,
with
a
girl's
life
hanging
in
the
balance.
Starling
is
gradually
revealed
as a
woman
struggling
out
of
her
own
darkness,
bound
to
aid
the
dysfunctional
males
around
her
on
their
own
paths
of
transformation,
liberation,
and
destruction.
This
is a
film
of
brilliant
and
disturbing
beauty
that
transcends
its
B-movie
origins
(though
it
does
honor
them
with
a
cameo
appearance
by
Roger
Corman).
Its
enduring
influence
has
led
to a
slew
of
similarly
dark-toned
serial
killer
films,
and
a
sequel,
HANNIBAL
(2001).
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