Silence Of The Lambs (Criterion) DVD

• Scene Access, Audio Commentary, Deleted Scenes, 'Making Of' Documentary, Production Notes, Film to Storyboard Comparison, FBI Criminal Profile Manual,, 118 minutes

Director: Jonathan Demme
Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, Ted Levine, Lawrence T. Wrentz, Lawrence A. Bonney, Kasi Lemmons, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald

From Thomas Harris' novel, director Jonathan Demme explodes and reconstructs a classic genre, laying a foundation of emotional and political commitment beneath a perfectly constructed psychological thriller. Fourteen years after her controversial role in "Taxi Driver", Jodie Foster finally makes the transformation from helpless victim to rescuing hero in this dark, gender-bending fairy tale on an American obsession: serial murder. As Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, Anthony Hopkins is the archetypal antihero-cultured, quick-witted, uncontainable--a portrait of all the sharpest human faculties gone diabolically wrong. Winner of five 1991 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay Adaptation for Ted Tally.