Ten years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody, ten years since FBI Agent Clarice Starling interviewed him in a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is now at large in Europe, pursuing his own interests and savoring the scents and essences of an unguarded world. But, Starling has never forgotten her encounters with Dr. Lecter, and the metallic rasp of his seldom-used voice still haunts her dreams. Mason Verger remembers Dr. Lecter, as well, and is obsessed with revenge. Verger was Dr. Lecter's sixth victim, and though hideously disfigured, has survived to rule a vast financial empire. Verger soon realizes that in order to draw the doctor out into the open, he must use someone Lecter cannot resist as bait: Clarice Starling.
Production Dino De Laurentiis Company; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM); Scott Free Productions [gb]; Universal Pictures;
Cast Names Anthony Hopkins; Julianne Moore; Gary Oldman; Ray Liotta; Frankie Faison; Giancarlo Giannini; Francesca Neri; Zeljko Ivanek; Hazelle Goodman; David Andrews; Francis Guinan; James Opher; Enrico Lo Verso; Ivano Marescotti; Fabrizio Gifuni; Alex Corrado; Marco Greco; Robert Rietty; Terry Serpico; Boyd Kestner; Peter Shaw; Kent Linville; Don McManus; Harold Ginn; Ted Koch; William Powell-Blair; Aaron Craig; Andrea Piedimonte; Ennio Coltorti; Ian Iwataki; Mark Margolis; Ajay Naidu; Kelly Piper; Bruce MacVittie; Giannina Facio; Andrew C. Boothby; Kenneth W. Smith; Judie Aronson; Tom Trigo; Sam Wells;
Box Office USD 165,091,464
Release Date 2001-02-09
Genres Crime; Thriller;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for strong gruesome violence, some nudity and language.