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Jodie Foster | ... | ||
Lawrence A. Bonney | ... | ||
Kasi Lemmons | ... | ||
Lawrence T. Wrentz | ... | ||
Scott Glenn | ... | ||
Anthony Heald | ... | ||
Frankie Faison | ... | ||
Don Brockett | ... | ||
Frank Seals Jr. | ... | ||
Stuart Rudin | ... | ||
Anthony Hopkins | ... | ||
Maria Skorobogatov | ... |
Young Clarice
(as Masha Skorobogatov)
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Jeffrie Lane | ... | ||
Leib Lensky | ... | ||
George 'Red' Schwartz | ... |
Mr. Lang's Driver
(as Red Schwartz)
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FBI trainee Clarice Starling works hard to advance her career, including trying to hide or 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 does ask her to question Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist imprisoned thus far for eight years in maximum security isolation for being a serial killer, he 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... Written by Huggo
The Silence of the Lambs runs two hours.Anthony Hopkins appears for little more than sixteen minutes, yet during those minutes he hasn't bored you for a second, not even after the tenth or eleventh viewing. Such is the power of his performance, it's absolutely impossible to forget him.His character, Dr.Hannibal"The Cannibal" Lecter, is a brutal killer with revolting methods and habits, but he's also very intelligent, charismatic and with good taste(you can interpret that as you like).A clichè by now, but who cares? He still is one of the key elements in this wonderful thriller, which sees Jodie Foster's Clarice Starling asking for Lecter's help to catch another killer.The result is a dangerous yet fascinating relationship between the young, unexperienced FBI-agent and the convicted,but basically omnipotent, psychiatrist.He's a step ahead of everyone all the time, and makes sure everyone notices, with his witty, unforgettable one-liners.If there had to be only one reason to worship this movie, then it would have to be the chemistry between the two leading actors.Never before has a non-sexual man/woman connection been more thrilling.Never before has a film's ending been more unsettling and brilliant and left us asking for more.
Best watched with a nice Chianti...
P.S. dear film-buffs, have the lambs stopped screaming?