Brand new factory sealed Canadian import is the 2-disc Collector's edition with both French and English text on the case. Has some stickers over the bar code and feels like it may have a cut-out mar thru the barcode on the back, perhaps all the way through the ad art paper underneath. This is done at the factory to signify items that are no longer being manufactured.

At large is a serial killer known as Buffalo Bill who has a habit of skinning his victims. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn), the FBIs man in charge of the case, seeks the assistance of a bright new agent, Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster). Her assignment: to interview Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), arouse his interest, and secure his help in drawing a psychological profile of the new killer.

The principal concern of the film is the entrapment of Buffalo Bill before he can kill again. Yet the heart of the movie is the eerie and complex relationship that develops between Clarice and Hannibal during a series of prison interviews, conducted through inch-thick bulletproof glass. In quick succession, they become analyst and patient, teacher and pupil, father and daughter, while always remaing cat and mouse.

Eventually, Hannibal not only can help with the case, but he also knows who the killer is! About halfway through, so does the audience, at which point the movie shifts gears as the pace increases. The breathless manhunt becomes a bit hard to follow without a roadmap. The final confrontation between Clarice and the man she has been pursuing is a knockout--a scene set in pitch dark, with Clarice being stalked by a killer who wears night-vision glasses.