MANHUNTER (1986)

 

Directed by: Michael Mann

Based on the novel "Red Dragon" by: Thomas Harris

Starring: William Petersen, Tom Noonan, Dennis Farina, Brian Cox, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Stephen Lang, David Seaman, Benjamin Hendrickson, Michael Talbott, Dan Butler, Michele Shay, Robin Moseley, Patricia Charbonneau, Alexandra Neil, Paul Perri, Norman Snow, Jim Zubiena, Frankie Faison, Garcelle Beauvais

120 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:

Will Graham is a former F.B.I. Agent who recently retired to Florida with his wife Molly and their young son, Kevin. Graham was a "profiler", one who profiles criminal's behavior and tries to put his mind into the minds of criminals to examine their thoughts while visiting crime scenes. Will is called out of his self-imposed retirement at the request of his former boss Jack Crawford to help the F.B.I. catch an elusive serial killer, known to the press as the "Tooth Fairy", who randomly kills whole families in their houses during nights of the full moon and leaves bite marks on his victims. To try to search for clues to get into the mind of the killer, Will has occasional meetings with Dr. Hannibal Lecktor, a charismatic, but very dangerous imprisoned serial killer that Will captured years earlier which nearly drove him insane from the horrific encounter that nearly cost Will's life. With some help and hindrance, Will races against the clock before the next full moon when the "Tooth Fairy" will strike again. Elsewhere, a local photographer named Francis Dollarhyde, the killer for whom Will is looking, struggles to stay undetected while seeing a hope of redemption when be begins a relationship with a blind woman who is not aware of his double life.

Features the first cinematic appearance of legendary character Dr. Hannibal Lecter, albeit under a different spelling.

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