This film has a 95%
percent positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes. 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. 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.