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The Silence of the Lambs(1991)
Released
1991 · FILM

The Silence of the Lambs

A determined FBI trainee seeks insight from a brilliant, cannibalistic psychiatrist to stop a terrifying serial killer who skins his victims.

“To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman.”

Directed by
Jonathan Demme, Ron Bozman
Written by
Thomas Harris, Ted Tally
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
119 min
CrimeDramaHorror
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI.

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The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 310+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Craig MckayShot by Tak FujimotoScored by Howard ShoreDesigned by Kristi ZeaSound by Tom FleischmanCostumes by Colleen AtwoodStunts by John Robotham

Box Office

1991 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 14× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$272.7M

Budget$19.0M
Worldwide gross$272.7M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $130.7M — 48% of worldwide · International: $142.0M (52%)

Opening weekend: $1.4M — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.4M — 1% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,497 theaters

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Re-release box office

2026
$395K($395K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Das Schweigen der Lämmerde
  • El silencio de los corderoses
  • Le Silence des agneauxfr
  • Il silenzio degli innocentiit

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