The Silence of the Lambs (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R

To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman.
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  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 58 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: February 13, 2018
  • Originally Released: 1991
  • Label: Criterion Collection

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Memorable Quotes and Dialog:

"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."

Major Awards:

Academy Awards 1991 - Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins
Academy Awards 1991 - Best Actress: Jodie Foster
Academy Awards 1991 - Best Adapted Screenplay: Ted Tally
Academy Awards 1991 - Best Director: Jonathan Demme
Academy Awards 1991 - Best Picture: Not Applicable

Entertainment Reviews:

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Rating: 4/4 -- It's ultimately rather remarkable just how engrossing The Silence of the Lambs remains for the duration of its 118 minute running time... Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Oct 2, 2019
Harrowing, tense, and unforgettable... Full Review
The Ringer
Oct 1, 2018
...Superbly crafted....THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS slams you like a sudden blast of bone-chilling, pulse-pounding terror...
Rolling Stone
Mar 7, 1991
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
Mar 1, 2006
...A sombre masterpiece....The film creates a world drained of light, counterpointed by a sinister and unsettling score...
Sight and Sound
Jun 1, 1991
Anthony Hopkins is devastatingly demonic in Jonathan Demme's truly horrifying thriller. Full Review
Newsday
Jan 2, 2018
Hopkins' performance is spectacularly unnerving and should win him future award nominations. Holding her own against Hopkins' hare is Jodie Foster as the tenacious, tortoise-like trainee. Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
Feb 14, 2018

Product 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).

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