Jonathan Demme

2 movies reviewed by Now Playing Podcast

Jonathan Demme directed 2 movies reviewed by Now Playing Podcast and has been discussed in Hannibal Lecter, Manchurian Candidate retrospective series. See all Series with movies directed by Jonathan Demme →

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The Manchurian Candidate

Make America Enslaved Again

Reviewed Nov 10, 2020
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return. Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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The Silence of the Lambs

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Reviewed Oct 11, 2011
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out. Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller