The Silence of the Lambs | | Cast : | Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins | | Director : | Jonathan Demme | | Studio : | MGM/UA Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | February 14, 1991 | | DVD Released Date : | August 21, 2001 | | Language : | Spanish (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 03, 2005 | | Summary | The Silence of the Lambs | Content
 | No matter how many times I watched this movie which is more than ten times as of today, it never fails to engross me as if I'm watching it for the first time. It's a great suspense thriller but it is also a great character study. Hannibal Lecter and Clarice Starling remain to be two of the best and fascinating characters in movie history.
The movie was elegant and quiet. The pacing was pitch perfect. You've got to see the clever intercutting scenes towards the end of the movie as Clarice and the FBI agents separately hunt for Buffalo Bill. It was brilliantly shot and edited. And of course the extended ending was a classic.
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins were perfection. All of their scenes together are electrifying especially their first meeting. The role of Clarice was originally offered to Michelle Pfeiffer (she passed because she felt uncomfortable with the subject matter) and I always wondered how the movie would've turned out. As much as I love Foster, it would be interesting how the sexual tension would've played out (since Pfeiffer is far more sensual and sexy)
Grade: A |
| Rating | | | Date | August 01, 2005 | | Summary | Now I know why it won best picture | Content
| Now this movie is really good and is not just the creep moments you get from watching it,the parts when clarice and lecter have conversations on who is killing girls arcoss america, makes you want more. The movie is long and very interesting because Clarice has to get information out of a psychopath to help her catch a man name buffalo bill who is skining girls for a reason ,but you'll have to fine out yourself why he does that.
The special Edition comes with lots stuff ,but watching the movie is enough if you ask me. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 22, 2005 | | Summary | Best film ever made!!!!!!!!!!!! | Content
| Turly a masterpiece. Brilient and amazing. The one film you have to see for your self. Anthony Hopkons is an awsone Hannibal Lecter and Jodie Foster is a great Clairese Starling. The settings were beautiful. I am a big horror film person and so my dad said if you want to see scary movie see " Silence of the Lambs". And so I did and found it more sad then scary. Some parts were scary such as the part when the serial killer captures the victim and puts her in the well. I saw "Hannibal" and thought that was much more sad the " Silence of the Lambs". I cried so hard at the end. Back to the movie. Some parts I found quite boring. But otherwise its amazing. See it for yourself. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 13, 2005 | | Summary | Put The Lotion In The Basket | Content
| I love this movie. I can watch it over and over. When I was younger it probably seemed kind of spooky and scary but now its just hilarious to me. I call be and say lines from the movie. Its truely one of my favorite movies, high on my list. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 12, 2005 | | Summary | Silence of the Lambs | Content
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Silence of the Lambs (1991) Orion Pictures
Academy Awards
Best Picture
Best Director (Jonathan Demme)
Best Actor (Anthony Hopkins)
Best Actress (Jodie Foster)
Best Screenplay (Ted Tally)
Crew
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Written by: Ted Tally
Produced by: Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon, and Ron Bozman
Cinematography by: Tak Fujimoto
Adapted From a Book by: Thomas Harris
Cast
Jodie Foster: Clarice Starling
Anthony Hopkins: Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Scott Glenn: Jack Crawford
Anthony Heald: Dr. Frederick Chilton
Ted Levine: Jame 'Buffalo Bill' Gumb
Brooke Smith: Catherine Martin
Diane Baker: Sen. Ruth Martin
Plot
Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is a student who is trying to become an F.B.I agent and is in current training. She is discriminated against by her peers and fellow students because they are all male. Due to a troublesome childhood, which includes her father dying when she was ten and her witnessing lambs being slaughtered in front of her, she continues to become a police officer like her father. Her boss, Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), wants to use her for a new assignment. He thinks that going to get advice from the famed psychiatrist, Dr. Hannibal the cannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins), will help them catch the fledgling killer, Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). Clarice goes to visit Hannibal in his cell and becomes strangely attracted to him. He begins to string up a deal with her. He wants for her to get him a transfer to another institution away from the horrid Dr. Chilton (Anthony Heald) and he'll give her a psychological profile on Buffalo Bill. The more he says, the more he wants her to say about herself. She begins to describe the horrors she faced when she was young and how she begins to get over them. But the memory of the lambs being slaughtered still haunts her. She thinks that if she solves the case and saves the new victim of Buffalo Bill, the senator's daughter (the senator is played by Diane Baker and her daughter is played by Brooke Smith), the lambs will stop screaming. Lector continues to listen and she begins to torture her psychologically. Suddenly, out of nowhere, Lector is transferred to a courthouse in Memphis to tell the identity of Bill. Once Clarice deciphers the anagram in the name of Bill, she finds out she is a fool for listening to Lector and he escapes by killing two guards. Watch the rest if you want to know how it ends.
Trivia
The book, Silence of the Lambs, was the second in the series of the Hannibal Lector series. The other two books are Red Dragon and Hannibal. FBI Director Hayden Burke was played by B-list movie producer Roger Corman and an FBI agent in Memphis was played by Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero. The same year this movie was made, actress Jodie Foster made her directorial debut in Little Man Tate with Dianne Weist and introducing Adam Hann-Byrd, who gives an incredible performance as the boy genius.
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