The Hannibal Lecter Trilogy

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Three-disc set includes: The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)The third film in Oscar history to win all five top awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, and Adapted Screenplay), director Jonathan Demme's harrowing cinematic thriller stars Jodie Foster as FBI trainee Clarice Starling, who engages in a mental duel with jailed serial killer Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (the understatedly sinister Anthony Hopkins) to gain information needed to track down another murderer. Adaptation of Thomas Harris' 1988 novel co-stars With Scott Glenn, Ted Levine. 118 min. C/Rtg: R Hannibal (2001)Ten years after escaping U.S. custody, diabolical doctor Hannibal Lecter has a comfortable life as an art library curator in Florence, Italy. But a vengeance-seeking millionaire, the mutilated survivor of a Lecter attack, plans to lure him back to America... with FBI agent Clarice Starling as his bait. Director Ridley Scott's intense sequel to "The Silence of the Lambs" stars Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Ray Liotta, Giancarlo Giannini, and Gary Oldman. 131 min. C/Rtg: R Red Dragon (2002)Coaxed out of retirement to find a twisted murderer known as "the Tooth Fairy," FBI profiler Will Graham (Edward Norton) seeks help from a man he brought to justice-anthophagous psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins)-and finds himself in a deadly game of wits with both his unknown quarry and the imprisoned Lecter. Moody thriller, based on the same Thomas Harris novel that inspired 1986's "Manhunter," also stars Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson, Mary-Louise Parker. 125 min. C/Rtg: R Widescreen; Soundtrack: English. Region Free