Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
The story
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.
- prison
- based on novel or book
- kidnapping
- psychopath
- fbi
- scientific study
- murder
- serial killer
- psychological thriller
- brutality
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jodie Foster
Clarice Starling
Anthony Hopkins
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Scott Glenn
Jack Crawford
Ted Levine
Jame Gumb
- Anthony Heald — Dr. Frederick Chilton
- Brooke Smith — Catherine Martin
- Diane Baker — Senator Ruth Martin
- Kasi Lemmons — Ardelia Mapp
- Frankie Faison — Barney
- Tracey Walter — Lamar
- Charles Napier — Lt. Boyle
- Danny Darst — Sgt. Tate
- Alex Coleman — Sgt. Pembry
- Dan Butler — Roden
- Paul Lazar — Pilcher
- Directed
- Jonathan Demme
- Written
- Ted Tally
Production
- Rating
- 8.3 / 10 · 18,447 ratings
- Studio
- Orion Pictures, Strong Heart, A Luta Continua
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1991 · You’re hereThe Silence of the Lambs
Where it starts.
Hannibal
2001
Red Dragon
2002
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
