-Hannibal Lecter is currently in Italy, working as a museum curator. Clarice Starling gets wind of this. but she has other problems. When investigating a drug cartel, one man botches it and someone gets killed. So when a high ranking FBI agent named Paul Krendler gets her for it, she manages to get a repreve from it. A man named Mason Verger is one of Lecter's victims. He wants to get payback on the good doctor for what was done to him. So he decides to use Starling to do it. Lecter sends her a personal note saying that he is in Italy, so she contacts the Italian Police and tells them to keep an eye out for him. But a corrupt Italian police officer wants the reward that Verger is offering, so he tells Verger where Lecter is. So Verger frames Starling to draw him back to the US.
Cast
-Anthony Hopkins: Hannibal Lecter
-Julianne Moore: Clarice Starling
-Gary Oldman: Mason Verger
-Frankie Faison: Barney
-Giancarlo Giannini: Insp. Renaldo Pazzi
-Mason's mansion is actually the very well known Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina
-Actual North Carolina State Troopers were used for the movie
-Hannibal asks Pazzi about being demoted from the Il Mostro case. Il Mostro was a serial killer which Hannibal gives Pazzi clues about
-When Clarice is talking to Agent Benetti, he is watching a soccer game on TV. It is an English Premier League game, the 2000 English FA Cup final, Chelsea vs. Aston Villa. The player that is shown a close-up is Aston Villa striker Julian Joachim.
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