Part four in the Hannibal Lecter Quadrilogy. Having escaped the asylum in Silence of the Lambs, Dr Lecter goes into hiding in Florence, Italy. Back in America, Mason Verger, an old victim of the doctor s, seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, he plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place, using the one thing he truly cares for: Clarice Starling.

Detective/psychologist Alex Cross loses his partner in an out of control bust. He stops working and cannot forgive himself. He is drawn back to work reluctantly when a senator s daughter is kidnapped and the kidnapper seems to want to deal with Alex personally.

The career and life of Stanley Kubrick is explored through pictures, clips from his films, his old home movies, comments from his colleagues and a narration by Tom Cruise.