The film that put Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins back onto the Hollywood A list and allowed Foster to make dreary vanity projects like Little Man Tate (1991) and Contact (1997).
Hopkins plays everyone's favourite cannibal, Hannibal Lecter and
Foster stars as everyone's favourite FBI agent (until The X-Files
came along) Clarice Starling. Together they track down a serial
killer who's making a woman's suit out of real women! Even Jean
Paul Gautier never tried shock tactics that harsh.