The Silence of the Lambs (film) The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American horror-thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster , Anthony Hopkins , and Scott Glenn . Adapted by Ted Tally from the 1988 novel of the same name by Thomas Harris , his second to feature the character of Dr. Hannibal Lecter ; a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer , the film was the second adaptation of a Harris novel featuring Lecter , preceded by the Michael Mann-directed Manhunter in 1986 . In the film , Clarice Starling , a young U.S. FBI trainee , seeks the advice of the imprisoned Dr. Lecter to apprehend another serial killer , known only as `` Buffalo Bill '' .   The Silence of the Lambs was released on February 14 , 1991 , and grossed $ 272.7 million worldwide against its $ 19 million budget . It was only the third film , the other two being It Happened One Night and One Flew Over the Cuckoo 's Nest , to win Academy Awards in all the top five categories : Best Picture , Best Actor , Best Actress , Best Director , and Adapted Screenplay . It is also the first ( and so far only ) Best Picture winner widely considered to be a horror film , and only the third such film to be nominated in the category , after The Exorcist in 1973 and Jaws in 1975 . The film is considered `` culturally , historically or aesthetically '' significant by the U.S. Library of Congress and was selected to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2011 . A sequel titled Hannibal was released in 2001 with Hopkins reprising his role , followed by two prequels : Red Dragon ( 2002 ) and Hannibal Rising ( 2007 ) .
Hear the Silence Hear the Silence is a 2003 semi-fictional TV drama based on the MMR vaccine controversy , which started when Andrew Wakefield published a paper claiming a possible link between the MMR vaccine and autism . It debuted on December 15 , 2003 at 9 PM on the British network Five . The film , produced at a cost of about 1 million pounds , stars Hugh Bonneville as Wakefield and Juliet Stevenson as Christine Shields , a fictional mother who discovers the possible MMR-autism link when her son is diagnosed as autistic . Stevenson 's character begins telling doctor after doctor that her son seemed to develop autism soon after he received the MMR vaccine , but she does not receive any sympathy from them , nor does she receive any from her boss , or even her husband . However , this all changes when she meets Dr. Wakefield , who believes her statements about the MMR vaccine causing her son 's autism . The film then shows fictional government officials `` plotting '' Wakefield 's `` demise '' , which they intend to bring about by portraying his research as flawed . Although never documented in reality , the film depicts Wakefield being targeted by the government : his phone is tapped and his files are stolen . The film attracted 1.2 million viewers on the first night it screened , considerably fewer than usual for Channel Five 's films that debut at 9 PM , which often get more than 2 million viewers . Scott Brady Scott Brady ( born Gerard Kenneth Tierney ; September 13 , 1924 -- April 16 , 1985 ) was an American film and television actor best known for his roles in western films and as a ubiquitous television presence . His acting career spanned 1948 - 1984 . Black Hawk Down (film) Black Hawk Down is a 2002 American war film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott . The screenplay by Ken Nolan is adapted from the non-fiction book of the same name by Mark Bowden , which in turn is based on the 29-part series of articles published in The Philadelphia Inquirer chronicling the events of a 1993 raid in Mogadishu by the U.S. military aimed at capturing faction leader Mohamed Farrah Aidid and the ensuing firefight , known as the Battle of Mogadishu .   The film features a large ensemble cast , including Josh Hartnett , Ewan McGregor , Eric Bana , Tom Sizemore , William Fichtner , Jason Isaacs , Tom Hardy , and Sam Shepard . It won two Oscars for Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing at the 74th Academy Awards . Although it was received positively by critics , the film was strongly criticized by a number of groups and military officials .   In 2009 , an extended cut of the film was released on DVD . The cut contained an additional 8 minutes of footage increasing the running time to 152 minutes . This extended cut has yet to be released on Blu-Ray . Christopher McLeod Christopher ( Toby ) McLeod is the project director of Earth Island Institute 's Sacred Land Film Project , which he founded in 1984 as one of Earth Island 's original projects . Since 2006 he has been producing and directing the four-part documentary film series Standing on Sacred Ground , which premiered in 2013 at the Mill Valley Film Festival and aired nationally on PBS in 2015 . Standing on Sacred Ground features eight indigenous communities around the world fighting to protect their sacred places . The award-winning series visits Altaians in Russia , the Winnemem Wintu in northern California , Papua New Guinea , the tar sands of Canada , the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia , Peru , Australia and Hawaii . McLeod produced and directed the award-winning documentary In the Light of Reverence ( 2001 ) and has made three other award-winning documentary films : The Four Corners : A National Sacrifice Area ? ( 1983 ) with Glenn Switkes and Randy Hayes , ( Winner of the Student Academy Award ) . Downwind/Downstream ( 1988 ) with Robert Lewis , and NOVA : Poison in the Rockies ( 1990 ) . His first film was the 9-minute short The Cracking of Glen Canyon Damn -- with Edward Abbey and Earth First ! ( 1982 ) with Glenn Switkes and Randy Hayes . The focus of these educational projects has been to increase public awareness and understanding of sacred natural sites , indigenous peoples ' cultural practices and worldviews , and environmental justice . Douglas D. Scott Douglas D. Scott is an American archaeologist most notable for his work at the Little Bighorn in the mid-1980s . Working with Richard Fox , Melissa Connor , Doug Harmon , and staff and volunteers from the National Park Service , Scott worked to sketch out a field methodology that has enabled archaeologists to systematically investigate battlefields . This work is internationally recognized as constituting a great step forward in our ability to interpret battlefields archaeologically , regardless of the extent of the historical record . At the Little Bighorn , the fieldwork produced an interpretation of the battle that for the first time gave a clear understanding of the way the battle developed and pointed out some of the glaring inaccuracies of the historiography of the event . The fieldwork also helped determine which of the 242 headstones to the 210 U.S. soldiers lost at the Little Bighorn were erroneous , and recovered skeletal elements allowed one of the soldiers to be positively identified . It was not as successful in recovering the remains of 24 men lost in Deep Ravine and whose whereabouts are unknown to this day .   Scott continued doing battlefield archaeology by working at Little Bighorn every season for 23 years . He also directed work at Big Hole Battlefield National Historical Site , Sand Creek National Historic Site , Wilson 's Creek National Battlefield , Pea Ridge National Battlefield Park , and Monroe 's Crossroads Battlefield . He has assisted , advised , or volunteered on over 40 other battlefield and conflict site investigations in the U.S. , England , and Belgium , including Washita National Historic Site and Honey Springs Battlefield with Bill Lees .   In another convergence the work at the Little Bighorn and the discovery of soldiers ' skeletal remains brought Scott into contact with Clyde Snow . Snow did an exceptional analysis of those remains , but also cajoled Doug Scott and Melissa Connor into taking the methods they developed in battlefield recovery to the field of forensic science . Snow 's statement that they should take their methods to a `` real '' battlefield led them to working for Physicians for Human Rights , the UN El Salvador Truth Commission , the UN Truth Commission for Former Yugoslavia , the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia , the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda , the U.S. State Department on a case in northern Cyprus , for PHR on the Greek side of Cyprus , and for the Regime Crime Liaison Office in Iraq . Connor shifted from prehistoric and historic archaeology to full-time forensic archaeology in 2000 . She now directs the Forensic Investigation Research Station ( FIRS ) for Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction , Colorado . Both Scott and Connor are Fellows of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences .   For this work , Scott has been honored with awards from the National Park Service . In 1992 , he was awarded the Department of Interior 's Meritorious Service Award and Medal for career accomplishments and innovative research . He served as the president of the Society for Historical Archaeology from 2006-2007 . In 2015 Scott received the J. C. Harrington Award , presented by the Society for Historical Archaeology for his life-time contributions to archaeology centered on scholarship . Scott is also a member of the Advisory Board for Armchair General Magazine . Alan Grofield Alan Grofield is a fictional character created by Donald E. Westlake . He is the main protagonist of four of the 28 novels Westlake has written under the pseudonym Richard Stark , and a supporting character in an additional four . Grofield 's first appearance was in the novel The Score , which was published in 1964 .   A career criminal and professional thief , Grofield is a devilishly handsome and charming womanizer whose main passion in life is the stage . This love of theatre does not extend to cinema ; Grofield has a deep disdain for television and film acting , and despite the fact that film and TV roles can be lucrative , Grofield will not pursue acting opportunities in these fields . The primary reason he steals is to keep his summer stock company running , and he might well quit his second profession if he could make a living through his first -- but he finds his second profession fulfilling as well .   During the events of The Score , Grofield meets his future wife and acting partner , Mary Deegan , a hostage taken during the heist in that novel , who insists on leaving town with him . She is referenced in the Grofield novels , and features prominently in Lemons Never Lie . She helps him run his theater , and serves as his leading lady . Grofield is very happy with her , but feels no compunction about being with other women when he 's away on a heist .   Unlike his frequent companion Parker , Grofield is a somewhat inconsistent character , and his adventures run the gamut from hard-boiled crime stories ( Lemons Never Lie ) to more fanciful , James Bond-style globetrotting and intrigue ( The Damsel , The Dame , and The Blackbird ) . Grofield is not mentioned in any of the eight Parker novels after Butcher 's Moon , and we do not learn whether he 's dead , imprisoned , or has simply retired from heisting . Glenn Kaiser Glenn Kaiser ( born January 21 , 1953 ) is a Chicago-based Christian blues musician , singer-songwriter and pastor . He was the leader of Resurrection Band and is currently the leader of The Glenn Kaiser Band . Randolph Scott George Randolph Scott ( January 23 , 1898 -- March 2 , 1987 ) was an American film actor whose career spanned from 1928 to 1962 . As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career , Scott appeared in a variety of genres , including social dramas , crime dramas , comedies , musicals ( albeit in non-singing and non-dancing roles ) , adventure tales , war films , and a few horror and fantasy films . However , his most enduring image is that of the tall-in-the-saddle Western hero . Out of his more than 100 film appearances over 60 were in Westerns ; thus , `` of all the major stars whose name was associated with the Western , Scott most closely identified with it . ''   Scott 's more than 30 years as a motion picture actor resulted in his working with many acclaimed screen directors , including Henry King , Rouben Mamoulian , Michael Curtiz , John Cromwell , King Vidor , Allan Dwan , Fritz Lang , and Sam Peckinpah . He also worked on multiple occasions with prominent directors : Henry Hathaway ( eight times ) , Ray Enright ( seven ) , Edwin L. Marin ( seven ) , André de Toth ( six ) , and most notably , his seven film collaborations with Budd Boetticher . Scott also worked with a diverse array of cinematic leading ladies , from Shirley Temple and Irene Dunne to Mae West and Marlene Dietrich .   Tall ( 6 ft 2 1/2 in ; 189 cm ) , lanky and handsome , Scott displayed an easygoing charm and courtly Southern drawl in his early films that helped offset his limitations as an actor , where he was frequently found to be stiff or `` lumbering '' . As he matured , however , Scott 's acting improved while his features became burnished and leathery , turning him into the ideal `` strong , silent '' type of stoic hero . The BFI Companion to the Western noted : In his earlier Westerns ... the Scott persona is debonair , easy-going , graceful , though with the necessary hint of steel . As he matures into his fifties his roles change . Increasingly Scott becomes the man who has seen it all , who has suffered pain , loss , and hardship , and who has now achieved ( but at what cost ? ) a stoic calm proof against vicissitude .   During the early 1950s , Scott was a consistent box-office draw . In the annual Motion Picture Herald Top Ten Polls , he ranked 10th in 1950 , seventh in 1951 , and 10th in both 1952 and 1953 . Scott also appeared in the Quigley 's Top Ten Money Makers Poll from 1950 to 1953 . Ron Bozman Ron Bozman is an American film producer who won an Academy Award for Best Picture in 1991 for the film The Silence of the Lambs . Glenn Lord Glenn Lord ( November 17 , 1931 -- December 31 , 2011 ) was an American literary agent , editor , and publisher of the prose and poetry of fellow Texan Robert E. Howard ( 1906 -- 1936 ) , and the first and most important researcher and scholar of Howard 's life and writings . As Summers Die As Summers Die is a 1986 American made-for-television drama film starring Scott Glenn , Jamie Lee Curtis , Bette Davis and Beah Richards , directed by Jean-Claude Tramont . The film is loosely based on Winston Groom 's 1980 novel of the same name about greed , bigotry and justice in late 1950s segregationist southern Louisiana . It was filmed in Valdosta , Georgia and premiered on HBO on May 18 , 1986 . It was later released on VHS . The Moviegoer (album) The Moviegoer is the seventh studio album by the American solo artist Scott Walker . It was released in October 1972 but failed to chart . No singles were released from the album , though `` This Way Mary '' was later released as a b-side to Walker 's 1973 single `` The Me I Never Knew '' . The album consists solely of renditions of film theme songs originally performed by other artists .   The album was the first of six studio albums ( the last two as The Walker Brothers ) in which Walker did not contribute original material . Having lost creative control of his music after the commercial failures of his previous two studio albums Scott 4 and 'Til the Band Comes In , Walker was tasked with recording `` inoffensive , middle-of-the-road material that could be easily processed , marketed and sold '' . By way of compromise Walker had some say in the song selection and drew together a selection of themes from some of his favourite films .   The album was recorded quickly in the autumn of 1972 with Walker 's usual studio team consisting of producer Johnny Franz and engineer Peter J. Olliff . In a change from previous work , Robert Cornford was brought-in to produce the orchestral arrangements . Despite a push for commercial viability the album received negative reviews when released as an LP in October 1972 . The album was re-issued in 1975 by Contour record label with new sleeve art . The album has since been deleted and has not been reissued . Glenn Wrage Glenn Wrage is an American actor and voice actor who has performed numerous roles in television , film , video games . Tell It to the Frogs `` Tell It To The Frogs '' is the third episode of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead . It originally aired on AMC in the United States on November 14 , 2010 . The episode was written by Charles H. Eglee , Jack LoGiudice , and Frank Darabont , the creator of the series . It was directed by Gwyneth Horder-Payton .   In the episode , officer Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln ) finally reunites with his wife Lori ( Sarah Wayne Callies ) , son Carl ( Chandler Riggs ) and best friend Shane Walsh ( Jon Bernthal ) , although this reunion is short lived when he decides to return to Atlanta to rescue Merle Dixon ( Michael Rooker ) along with Daryl ( Norman Reedus ) , T-Dog ( IronE Singleton ) , Glenn , and Morales . After realizing that her husband is alive after all , Lori ends her tumultuous affair with Shane . That is when Shane takes out his frustration on the cruel and abusive Ed Peletier ( Adam Minarovich ) . Scott Elrod Scott Michael Elrod ( born February 10 , 1975 ) is an American actor . Conquer (The Walking Dead) `` Conquer '' is the sixteenth and final episode of the fifth season , and 67th episode overall of the post-apocalyptic horror television series The Walking Dead , which aired on AMC on March 29 , 2015 . It was written by showrunner Scott M. Gimple and Seth Hoffman , and directed by Greg Nicotero .   Several recurring storylines culminate in the episode : the residents of the Alexandria Safe-Zone deciding on what to do with Rick Grimes ( Andrew Lincoln ) following his outburst in the previous episode ; Glenn Rhee 's ( Steven Yeun ) conflict with Nicholas ( Michael Traynor ) ; and Sasha Williams ( Sonequa Martin-Green ) and Father Gabriel Stokes ( Seth Gilliam ) confronting their demons . Meanwhile , Daryl Dixon ( Norman Reedus ) and Aaron ( Ross Marquand ) encounter trouble from a potential threat during a run , and Morgan Jones ( Lennie James ) nears the end of his search for Rick .   Similar to the pilot episode and the season two premiere , the episode aired in a 90-minute time slot , as opposed to its regular 60-minute time slot .   Television commentators lauded the character progression , its storytelling , Nicotero 's direction , Gimple 's and Hoffman 's script and the ensemble 's performances . Many highlighted Andrew Lincoln and Lennie James 's performances , as well as the character progression of Carol Peletier . Upon airing , it attracted 15.8 million viewers with an 18-49 rating of 8.2 , making it the most watched season finale in the show and drama in basic cable history . Christopher Glenn Joseph Christopher Glenn ( March 23 , 1938 -- October 17 , 2006 ) was an American radio and television news journalist who worked in broadcasting for over 45 years and spent the final 35 years of his career at CBS , retiring in 2006 at the age of 68 . Orion Pictures Orion Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture producer and distributor that produced and released films from 1978 until 1999 , and was also involved in television production and syndication throughout the 1980s until the early 1990s . It was formed in 1978 as a joint venture between Warner Bros. and three former top-level executives of United Artists . Although it was never a large motion picture producer , Orion achieved a comparatively high reputation for Hollywood quality . Woody Allen , James Cameron , Jonathan Demme , Oliver Stone , and several other prominent directors worked with Orion during its most successful years from 1978 to 1992 . Of the films distributed by Orion , four won Academy Awards for Best Picture : Amadeus ( 1984 ) , Platoon ( 1986 ) , Dances with Wolves ( 1990 ) , and The Silence of the Lambs ( 1991 ) . Two other Orion films , Hannah and Her Sisters ( 1986 ) and Mississippi Burning ( 1988 ) , were nominated for that same category . In 2013 , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer revived the Orion name for television ; a year later Orion Pictures was quietly relaunched by the studio . Manhattan Night Manhattan Night is a 2016 American crime film written and directed by Brian DeCubellis . It is based on the 1996 novel Manhattan Nocturne by Colin Harrison . The film stars Adrien Brody , Yvonne Strahovski , Jennifer Beals , Campbell Scott , Linda Lavin and Steven Berkoff . The film was released on May 20 , 2016 , by Lionsgate Premiere . A.C.O.D. A.C.O.D. is a 2013 American comedy film directed by Stu Zicherman , based on a script by Zicherman and Ben Karlin , and starring Adam Scott , Amy Poehler , Jessica Alba and Jane Lynch . The name of the film is an abbreviation for Adult Children of Divorce .   Teddy Schwarzman produced the film through his Black Bear Pictures production company . Other stars include Richard Jenkins , Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Catherine O'Hara , with Ken Howard and Clark Duke in supporting roles .   The film was released in the U.S. on October 4 , 2013 .