Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, 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 a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

• DirectorJonathan Demme
• Release14 February 1991
• Genre
  Crime / Drama
• Duration1h 59m
• Budget$19,000,000
• Revenue$272,742,922
• Rate
  

  8.3
  16701 reviews
• Productions

  Orion Pictures, Strong Heart