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Format: DVD
Sep 2008
Rated R
Recording Mode: Dolby Surround
118 min.
Color
Extra Info: Canadian; Sensormatic; Widescreen; Collector's Edition
UPC: 883904116615 |
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Movie Description
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins will likely be forever associated with their roles in this bone-chilling masterpiece, based on the novel by Thomas Harris and directed by Jonathan Demme. FBI trainee Clarice Starling (Foster) is sent by her supervisor (Scott Glenn) to interview ferociously intelligent serial killer Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lechter (Hopkins) at his cell in a Maryland mental hospital. The FBI hopes Lechter can provide insight into the mind of killer-at-large, Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine), whose current abductee happens to be the daughter of a senator. Intrigued by Clairice, Lechter demands information about her personal life and in exchange for clues, and the two begin to form a strangely intimate connection, with a girl's life hanging in the balance. Starling is gradually revealed as a woman struggling out of her own darkness, bound to aid the dysfunctional males around her on their own paths of transformation, liberation, and destruction. This is a film of brilliant and disturbing beauty that transcends its B-movie origins (though it does honor them with a cameo appearance by Roger Corman). Its enduring influence has led to a slew of similarly dark-toned serial killer films, and a sequel, HANNIBAL (2001).
Industry Reviews
"...Superbly crafted....THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror..."
Rolling Stone - p.87-8 - Peter Travers (03/07/1991)
"...A sombre masterpiece....The film creates a world drained of light, counterpointed by a sinister and unsettling score..."
Sight and Sound - p.62-3 - Lizzie Francke (06/01/1991)
"...[A] superbly crafted, unsettling movie....Demme pumps up the tension to a deafening din..." -- 4 out of 4 stars
USA Today - p.1D - Mike Clark
"...Hopkins' performance may be the film's bravura showpiece, but Foster's goes the whole distance, steadfast, controlled, heartbreakingly insightful, a fine addition to her gallery of characterizations..."
Los Angeles Times - Sheila Benson (02/13/1991)
"Hopkins's portrayal of the world's most urbane serial killer is a wonder of both actorly invention and villainous instinct."
Premiere - Premiere Staff (04/01/2004)
4 stars out of 5 -- "[S]till the definitive upmarket serial killer thriller, achieving the almost unprecedented feat of winning all five major Oscar categories..."
Uncut - Stephen Dalton (03/01/2006)
"LAMBS remains a great film. A groundbreaking film." -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly - Jeff Labrecque (02/02/2007)
5 stars out of 5 -- "[A] rare horror that transcends the genre and has arguably become a modern classic."
Ultimate DVD - Simon Edwards (03/01/2007)
Quotations
"Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head."--Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn)
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."--Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins); the classic sucking sound Hopkins made after this line was ad-libbed
"I do wish we could chat a little longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner."--Hannibal Lecter
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Other Editions
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VHS, Oct 1991 - $0.75 Save 96%
Laserdisc, Oct 1991 - $3.45 Save 88%
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Blu-ray Disc - $20.95
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