| | | The silence has been broken.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1), Commentary
Based on the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, Hannibal continues the story begun in The Silence of the Lambs. Seven years have passed since Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) escaped from custody, seven years since FBI Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) interviewed him in a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. The doctor is now at large in Europe, pursuing his own interests, savoring the scents, the essences of an unguarded world. But Starling has never forgotten her encounters with Dr. Lecter – his seldom-used voice still haunts her dreams. Mason Verger remembers Dr. Lecter, too, and is obsessed with revenge. Verger was Dr. Lecter’s sixth victim, and, though hideously disfigured, has survived. 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.
"...Anthony Hopkins makes Lecter fascinating every second he is on the screen." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"...a movie meant for the whole family-the Manson family." Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times
"...sleekly creepy..." Joe Leydon, San Francisco Examiner
Editor's Note
After a decade in abeyance, the courtly cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, returns to the screen, again played by Anthony Hopkins, under the direction of Ridley Scott. When F.B.I. Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) is blamed for a botched drug bust, her boss Paul Krendler (Ray Liotta) makes a media circus of her humiliation, which catches the attention of Lecter. Now a hardened veteran, she begins receiving letters from the twisted genius, who remains obsessed with her. Yet she's not the only one interested in drawing out the psychopath, now lecturing on the Renaissance in Florence. Italian detective Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini) hopes to impress his young wife by nailing the reward for his capture, and wealthy pedophile Mason Verger (Gary Oldman) is eager to take revenge against the cannibal for leaving him with a hideously deformed face. But they're no match for Hannibal's coyly satanic ubiquity, which bewilders his quickly narcotized foes before he administers a punishment sufficiently grotesque to suit his sense of amusement.The odious Krendler, in particular, learns to use his gray matter for, perhaps, the first time in his life. However, all is prologue to his fated rendezvous with Clarice. A banquet for the splatterati, reveling as it does in gore and dismemberment, the film features brilliant work by a stellar cast, and the kind of meticulous art direction and lushly magnificent photography that one has come to expect of one of Scott.
| Features | Cast & Crew Biographies | | Closed Captioned | | Subtitles: English, Spanish, & French | | Reaction | | The Art of Storyboarding | | Gallery of Trailers, TV Spots, Rare Production Stills, and Never-Before-Seen Poster Concepts | | Special Make-up Effects! | | Music | | 3 Interactive Multi-Angle Featurettes | | Gallery Featuring Never-Before-Seen Materials | | Development | | Audio: English, Spanish & French Dolby Digital 5.1 and English DTS Digital Surround Sound | | "Breaking The Silence" - 5 Unique Making-Of Featurettes | | Feature-Length Audio Commentary by Director Ridley Scott | | 2-Disc Set Features More Than 4 Hours of Extras! | | Over 35 Minutes of Deleted Scenes Including Never-Before-Seen Alternate Ending With Optional Director Commentary! | | 16x9 Anamorphic Transfer |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: MGM |
| Release Date: 10/16/2007 |
| Running Time: 131 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2001 | | Catalog ID: 1002321 | | UPC: 00027616865403 | | Number of Discs: 2 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
MTV Award (2001) | | | Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Nominee, Best Kiss | | | Anthony Hopkins, Nominee, Best Villain |
| Memorable Quotes| "I should tell you...I've given serious thought...to eating your wife."----Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to Pazzi (Giancarlo Giannini) | | "Hello, Clarice..."----Hannibal Lecter to Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore) |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Handsomely staged....[The] presentation is mournfully beautiful; rarely has a director used so many variations on midnight blue..." 02/09/2001 p.E12Entertainment Weekly
"...Gruesomely engrossing....Lecter remains a riveting figure of fear..." 02/16/2001 p.67-8 Variety
"...Tantalizing, engrossing....HANNIBAL imparts its own pleasures by painting a portrait of a man of ultimate civilized refinements whose dark side always threatens to lurch out violently..." 02/05/2001 p.37-40 Rolling Stone 8 of 10
...It's better than the 1999 Harris novel... It's not better than The Silence of the Lambs... It's unmissable, flaws and all, because riveting suspense spiced with diabolical laughs and garnished with a sprig of kinky romance add up to the tastiest dish around. - Peter Travers
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