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 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) (as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures) (presents); Universal Pictures (presents); Dino De Laurentiis Company (in association with); Scott Free Productions [gb](as Scott Free);
Cast Names Heidi Burger; Cassandra Smith; Robert Randolph Caton; Douglas Crosby; Page Dreher; Renne Gjoni; Gano Grills; Jamie Harrold; Chuck Jeffreys; Cal Johnson; Raymond H. Johnson; Rick Kain; Jalil Jay Lynch; Phil Neilson; Frank Principe; Franco Maria Salamon; Derrick Simmons; Sebastiano Somma; Anthony Wanzer; Gus Williams; Anthony Hopkins; Julianne Moore; Gary Oldman; Ray Liotta; Frankie Faison; Giancarlo Giannini; Francesca Neri; Zeljko Ivanek; Hazelle Goodman; David Andrews;
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.