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Manhunter (1986)

Manhunter
Manhunter
R
Crime
Horror
Mystery
Thriller

Release Date
August 14, 1986
Director
Michael Mann
Cast
William Petersen , Kim Greist , Joan Allen , Brian Cox , Dennis Farina , Tom Noonan
Runtime
119
Main Genre
Crime
Writers
Thomas Harris , Michael Mann
Tagline
Enter the mind of a serial killer... you may never come back.

Summary

A psychopathic serial killer is on the lose, killing a family each full moon and the police and FBI are clueless. Therefore they ask Will Graham, the FBI agent who captured Doctor Hannibal Lecktor, to look into the case. Will Graham has been out of the game for a while, so he visits Dr. Lecktor in prison to get into the thought patterns of a psychopathic again. See also Silence of the Lambs, The which follows the same plot.

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