The Silence of the Lambs is a critically acclaimed movie based on the book Silence of the Lambs written by Thomas Harris. The Silence of the Lambs is an Orion Pictures Corporation film which was copyrighted in 1990 and was a Strong Heart/Demme production.
             The Silence of the Lambs was directed by Jonathan Demme. The sound was by Howard Shore. Cinematography by Tony Jannelli, and special effects by Dwight Benjamin-Creel. This film was edited by Lisa Bromwell.
             The Silence of the Lambs takes place in 1990 in three states, first in Virginia, then in Baltimore, and lastly in Tennessee. The main characters are Dr. Hannibal Lecter, played by Anthony Hopkins, who is a psychopath psychiatrist with great intellect who is kept behind bullet proof glass in a maximum security asylum. Hannibal was put in there after he killed and ate some of his former patients. Clarisse Starling, played by Jodie Foster, is an FBI trainee who was called on by her superior to examine Hannibal in hope to find out information on how to capture the deranged serial killer "Buffalo Bill." Jack Crawford, played by Scott Glenn, is Clarisse's superior who is in charge of the Behavioral Science Department of the FBI. He looks on Clarisse with great confidence that she will become a great FBI agent, and make her deceased father, who was a police officer, proud of her. Dr. Frederick Chilton, played by Anthony Heald, is the head of the asylum where Hannibal Lecter is imprisoned. He doesn't like the fact that Clarisse is visiting Hannibal so often and not telling him about their conversations, so he is out to screw her and Jack. Lastly Jame Gumb, played by Ted Levine, who is a deranged transvestite who kills, and skins overweight girls in hopes to sew himself a suit of skin so he can become a woman himself. He goes by the name of Buffalo Bill, he kidnaps girls and keeps them at his house for three days, starving them. He then shoots and skins them, leaving t...