The Story
The third film in Oscar history to win all five top awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapted Screenplay), director Jonathan Demme's harrowing cinematic thriller stars Jodie Foster as an FBI trainee who engages in a mental duel with jailed serial killer Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (the understatedly sinister Anthony Hopkins) to gain information needed to track down another murderer. With Scott Glenn, Ted Levine. 118 min.
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The third film in Oscar history to win all five top awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapted Screenplay), director Jonathan Demme's harrowing cinematic thriller stars Jodie Foster as an FBI trainee who engages in a mental duel with jailed serial killer Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (the understatedly sinister Anthony Hopkins) to gain information needed to track down another murderer. With Scott Glenn, Ted Levine. 118 min.
