Oscar winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay. The classic thriller starring Anthony Hopkins...
Oscar winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay. The classic thriller starring Anthony Hopkins as manipulative serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter - one of movies great villains - and Jodie Foster as the FBI cadet who is interviewing him for help on catching another killer.
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95 %154 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
95 %849,434 reviewsAudience score rating
"The popularity of Jonathan Demme's movie is likely to last as long as there is a market for being scared."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"The Silence of the Lambs is pop film making of a high order."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"A first unmissable, then enduring, but always unmissable classic."
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Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine"The juiciest part is Hopkins,' and he makes the most of it."
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Variety
Variety"Hopkins' performance is spectacularly unnerving..."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"Anthony Hopkins' performance as Lecter is an uproarious technical masterpiece."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"It's stylish, intelligent, audacious rather than shocking, and stolen by a suave monster you'll never forget."
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Boston Globe
Boston Globe"A smart, restrained entertainment, it doesn't splash around in blood and hysteria."
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post"It proves that a movie can be mercilessly scary and mercifully humane at the same time."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling StoneThe Silence of the Lambs | Details
Award winner- Best Film, Best Actor (Hopkins), Actress (Foster), Director, Adapted Screenplay at the 1992 Academy Awards. Best Actor (Hopkins), Actress (Foster) at the 1992 BAFTA Awards. Silver Bear winner at Berlin Film Festival 1991. Best Actress (Foster), Golden Globes 1992.
- Rating
- MA15+, High level violence, Medium level coarse language
- Runtime
- 115
- Genre
- Thriller
- Country of origin
- USA
