The silence of the lamb

Main Characters

Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is a student at the FBI Academy. She hoped to work at the Behavioral Science Unit, tracking down serial killers and ultimately apprehending them. She'll interview Hanibal Lecter to ask him for help to catch a serial killer: Bufallo Bill.

Hanibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) assists an FBI agent-in-training named Clarice Starling in catching a serial killer known only as "Buffalo Bill"
. Lecter and Starling form an unusual relationship in which he provides her with a profile of the killer and his modus operandi in exchange for details about her unhappy childhood. Lecter eventually stages a dramatic, bloody escape from captivity and disappears. James Gumb kidnaps overweight women so he can starve them. He starves them so that their skin is much looser so after he murders them he can more easily remove their skin to fashion a "woman suit" for himself. He considers himself transsexual, but is too disturbed to qualify for sex reassignment surgery. He becomes known as "Buffalo Bill" during his murder spree because of an off-color joke by Kansas City homicide detectives; upon discovering his first victim, the detectives say "This one likes to skin his humps."

Awards:

The silence of the lamb won an oscar in 1992 for: -Best Actor in a Leading Role for Anthony Hopkins -Best Actress in a Leading Role for Jodie Foster -Best director for Jonathan Demme -Best picture for Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ronald M. Bozman

The silence of the lamb won a cesar in 1992 for: -Best foreign film

The silence of the lamb won a golden globe in 1992 for: -Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama for Jodie