Cinema at The Bay: Silence of the Lambs (35th Anniversary)

Jonathan Demme’s 1991 psychological thriller The Silence of the Lambs is shown on the open-air lawn of The Oval at The Bay Park. The film adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novel stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee who seeks the psychological insight of incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) to catch another murderer on the loose. It remains one of the few films in history to win all five major Academy Awards. The screening takes place on a temporary projector setup on the green, and attendees set up their own chairs and blankets across the grass.