1986, 122 minutes
Directed by Michael Mann
4K RESTORATION
40th Anniversary
In retirement following a nervous breakdown, preternaturally gifted FBI profiler Will Graham (William Petersen) is persuaded by his former boss Jack Crawford (Dennis Farina) to hunt down a new serial killer terrorizing the American South. Promising his wife Molly (Kim Greist) to stay out of harm’s way, he warily investigates the man the press have dubbed the Tooth Fairy—due to his signature bite marks. Graham decides that Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox), the high-IQ cannibal murderer and one-time psychiatrist who formerly attacked him, holds the key to solving the case.
Adapted from Thomas Harris’s 1981 bestseller Red Dragon, in the first screen appearance for the Hannibal Lecter character, Michael Mann’s Manhunter reinvented the police procedural with piercing psychological acuity and commanding style.