FBI trainee Clarice Starling is pulled from her training at the FBI Academy by Jack Crawford of the Bureau’s Behavioral Science Unit. He assigns her to interview Hannibal Lecter, a former psychiatrist and incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer, whose insight might prove useful in the pursuit of a serial killer nicknamed “Buffalo Bill,” who skins his female victims’ corpses.

Director  Jonathan Demme

Producer  Kenneth Utt, Edward Saxon, Ron Bozman, Gary Goetzman

Screenwriter  Thomas Harris, Ted Tally

Cinematographer  Tak Fujimoto

Production Designer Kristi Zea

Art Director  Tim Galvin

Editor Craig McKay

Sound Richard L. Anderson, Tom Fleischman

Music Howard Shore

Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith

Production Companies  Strong Heart/Demme Production, Orion Pictures

Distributor Park Circus