The Silence Of The Lambs/Summer Of Sam

The Silence Of The Lambs:

Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster deliver knockout Oscar Winning performances in this shocking, powerful thriller. This terrifying masterpiece of suspense garnered five Academy Awards including Best Director and the coveted Best Picture.

A psychopath known only as Buffalo Bill is kidnapping and murdering young women across the midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the FBI sends in Agent Clarice Starling (Foster) to interview an insane prisoner who may provide psychological insights and clues to the killer's actions. The prisoner is psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Hopkins). Brilliant yet psychotic, with a taste for cannibalism, Lecter will only help Starling in exchange for details and secrets about her own complicated life. This twisted relationship forces Starling not only to face her own inner demons, but leads her face-to-face with a demented killer, an incarnation of evil so overwhelming, she may not have the courage or strength to stop him. Horrific, disturbing, spellbinding; this thriller set the standard by which all others are measured.

Summer Of Sam:

In the summer of 1977, Saturday night fever ruled and the first thrashings of punk were being heard. By day, temperatures soared on the sweltering streets of Manhattan. But by night, a serial killer dubbed the Son of Sam stalked the suburbs, indiscriminately shooting young brunettes and held New York City in a grip of terror.

Trying to make sense of their lives in this overwhelming atmosphere of fear and suspicion are Vinny (John Leguizamo), a streetwise Casanova indulging in affairs under the nose of his loving wife, Dionna (Mira Sorvino), and Ritchie (Adrien Brody), a punk musician moonlighting as a male stripper.

As the murderer's actions impact on all their lifestyles, they start to suspect the killer might be someone from their own neighborhood - or even one of their own friends.

From the controversial director Spike Lee comes his boldest and most ambitious film brilliantly capturing the sights, sounds and sexual attitudes of the 1970s.