Jodie Foster plays Clarice Starling who is finishing her school at the FBI school in Quantico when her boss Crawford (Scott Glenn), desperate for a break to identify and capture ‘Buffalo Bill’ send her to interview the notorious imprisoned serial killer and psychiatrist Hannibal Lector. Sensing that Clarice is driven by a dark and tragic past Lector agrees to help but only if she does the one thing that Crawford insisted she must never do, allow Lector into her head. Once ‘Buffalo Bill,’ who is known to kidnap and hold his female victims for several days before killing them, abducts, unwittingly Catherine, the daughter of a U.S. Senator, Clarice and Crawford begin a race to discover ‘Bill’s’ identity and location before it’s too late.
With tight taunt plotting, well-developed characters, and sharp cinematic skill The Silence of the Lambs, stormed the box office and took several well-deserved Oscars. A modern classic this is a film that is timeless and always worth watching and studying.