Ten years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter escaped from custody, ten years since FBI Agent 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. But Mason Verger remembers Dr. Lecter, too, 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.

Directed by
Ridley Scott

Cast
Anthony Hopkins - Hannibal Lecter
Julianne Moore - Clarice Starling
Ray Liotta - Paul Krendler
Frankie Faison - Barney
Giancarlo Giannini - Inspector Rinaldo Pazzi
Francesca Neri - Allegra Pazzi
Zeljko Ivanek - Doctor Cordell Doemling
Hazelle Goodman - Evelda Drumgo 

Production Co.
Scott Free Productions
Dino De Laurentiis Company

Produced by
Branko Lustig
Dino de Laurentiis
Martha de Laurentiis

Studio
Universal
MGM/UA Entertainment Company

Writer
Thomas Harris
David Mamet

Music
Hans Zimmer