The Silence of the Lambs [Collector's Edition] [2 Discs]

Overview

In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then removes the skin from their bodies. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), 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 this case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out. Lecter does indeed know something of Buffalo Bill, but his information comes with a price: in exchange for telling what he knows, he wants to be housed in a more comfortable facility. More important, he wants to speak with Clarice about her past. He skillfully digs into her psyche, forcing her to reveal her innermost traumas and putting her in a position of vulnerability when she can least afford to be weak. The film mingles the horrors of criminal acts with the psychological horrors of Lecter's slow-motion interrogation of Clarice and of her memories that emerge from it.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/30/2007
UPC:	0027616065841
Original Release:	1991
Rating:	R
Source:	STUDIO DISTRIBUTION SERVS LLC
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:58:00
Sales rank:	787

Special Features

Disc 2:; Inside the Labyrinth: Making of The Silence of the Lambs; The Silence of the Lambs: Page to Screen (2 Part Documentary); Jonathan Demme & Jodie Foster (3 Part Documentary); Scoring the Silence; Original 1991 Making Of Featurette; Deleted Scenes; Outtakes Reel; Anthony Hopkins Phone Message; TV Spots; Photo Gallery; Theatrical Trailer; Teaser Trailer; Other MGM Trailers

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jodie Foster	Clarice Starling
Anthony Hopkins	Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Scott Glenn	Jack Crawford
Ted Levine	Jame Gumb
Anthony Heald	Dr. Frederick Chilton
Diane Baker	Sen. Ruth Martin
Kasi Lemmons	Ardelia Mapp
Brooke Smith	Catherine Martin
Dan Butler	Roden
Paul Lazar	Pilcher
Danny Darst	Sgt. Tate
Charles Napier	Lt. Boyle
Tracey Walter	Lamar
Cynthia Ettinger	Off. Jacobs
Brent Hinkley	Officer Murray
Roger Corman	FBI Director Hayden Burke
Chris Isaak	Swat Commander
Ron Vawter	Paul Krendler
Lawrence A. Bonney	FBI Instructor
Lawrence T. Wrentz	Agent Burroughs
Frankie Faison	Barney
Don Brockett	Friendly Psychopath
Frank Seals Jr.	Brooding Psychopath
Stuart Rudin	Miggs
Masha Skorobogatov	Young Clarice,Actor
Jeffrie Lane	Clarice's Father
Leib Lensky	Mr. Lang
Red Schwartz	Mr. Lang's Driver,Actor,Mr. Lang's Driver
Jim Roche	TV Evangelist
James B. Howard	Boxing Instructor,Actor
Bill Miller	Mr. Brigham
Chuck Aber	Agent Terry
Gene Borkan	Oscar
Pat McNamara	Sheriff Perkins
Kenneth Utt	Dr. Akin
Adelle Lutz	TV Anchor Woman
George Micheal	TV Sportscaster
Jim Dratfield	Senator Martin's Aide
Stanton-Miranda	Reporter #1
Rebecca Saxon	Reporter #2
Steve Wyatt	Airport Flirt
Alex Coleman	Sergeant Pembry
David Early	Spooked Memphis Cop
Andre Blake	Tall Memphis Cop,Tall Memphis Cop
Bill Dalzell III	Distraught Memphis Cop
Daniel Von Bargen	Swat Communicator
Tommy LaFitte	Swat Shooter
Josh Broder	EMS Attendant
Buzz Kilman	EMS Driver
Harry Northrup	Mr. Bimmel
Lauren Roselli	Stacy Hubka
Lamont Arnold	Flower Delivery Man
George A. Romero	Memphis FBI Agent
Darla	'Precious'
John Hall	State Trooper
Chad Dowdell	Scared Man (uncredited)
Howard Shore	Composer

Technical Credits

Ted Tally

Jonathan Demme	Director
Dwight Benjamin-Creel	Special Effects
Ron Bozman	Producer
Howard Feuer	Casting
Gary Goetzman	Executive Producer,Producer
John Robotham	Stunts
Edward Saxon	Producer
Kenneth Utt	Producer,Executive Producer
Skip Lievsay	Sound/Sound Designer
Ted Tally	Screenwriter
Ron Bochar	Sound Effects
David Boulton	Sound Effects
Missy Cohen	Sound Effects
Randall Coleman	Sound Effects
Marko A. Costanzo	Sound Effects
Michael Cassidy	Stunts
Grace Blake	Producer
Walter Robles	Stunts
George P. Wilbur	Stunts
Tom Fleischman	Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

With Silence of the Lambs, director Jonathan Demme and screenwriter Ted Tally, working from the Thomas Harris novel, peel back the layers on the horrors of everyday life and childhood, which begin to loom as large as their villain Hannibal Lecter's more outlandish crimes. Justice is served, but we feel no safer as a result. The Silence of the Lambs won all five major Academy awards, one of only three films in history to do so (the others were It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)). Jodie Foster's tightly wound Clarice and Anthony Hopkins' Chianti-and-fava-bean-loving Lecter have become classic movie performances, and the film has taken its place as one of the most complicated and unnerving psychological horror movies. Horror films fans will also want to keep an eye peeled for cameos by directors George A. Romero and Roger Corman.