The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Year
- 1991
- Director
- Jonathan Demme
- Principal cast
- Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
- Budget (reported)
- About $19 million (reported)
- Box office (reported)
- About $272.7 million worldwide (reported)
Geeky trivia
- Swept the “big five” Oscars: Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Adapted Screenplay.
- Hopkins’s Lecter screen time is famously short (around 16 minutes) yet won Best Actor.
- Orion Pictures release that became a pop-culture quote machine.
Mistakes & goofs
- Continuity niggles logged on public goof pages include vanishing nail polish / small prop mismatches between cuts.
- A few background extras and FBI-office details shift between shots — typical close-up coverage leftovers.
Budget/box office: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film)