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Manhunter is a 1986 American neo-noir, independent, crime, and horror film directed by Michael Mann, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Thomas Harris, based on Harris's novel Red Dragon. Produced by Thomas Harris and Dino De Laurentiis for the Dino De Laurentiis Company, it stars William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, and Brian Cox, with cinematography by Dante Spinotti, production design by Mel Bourne, and costumes by Colleen Atwood. Its central subject is a serial killer, and the story is followed by Hannibal Rising.
Filmed across Florida, Chicago, Georgia, and North Carolina, and set partly in Washington, D.C., Alabama, and St. Louis, the film was rated R and ran 120 minutes. Its budget has been recorded as both 15,000,000 and 150,000,000, and it earned 8,620,929 at the box office, with 1 win and 1 nomination in total.
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7.0FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.
Cast
- William L. Petersen as Will Graham
- Tom Noonan as Francis Dollarhyde
- Dennis Farina as Jack Crawford
- Brian Cox as Dr. Hannibal Lecktor
- Kim Greist as Molly Graham
- Joan Allen as Reba McClane
Themes
- journalist
- based on novel or book
- loss of loved one
- psychopath
- fbi
- investigation
- covered investigation
- full moon
- cult
- eye
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Ratings
IMDb
7.2/10
90,602 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
Metacritic
75/100
- Year
- 1986
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Genres
- Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Michael Mann
- Screenplay by
- Michael Mann
- Based on
- Red Dragon , by Thomas Harris
- Produced by
- Richard Roth
- Starring
- William Petersen Kim Greist Joan Allen Brian Cox Dennis Farina Stephen Lang Tom Noonan
- Cinematography
- Dante Spinotti
- Edited by
- Dov Hoenig
- Music by
- Michel Rubini The Reds
- Production company
- Red Dragon Productions
- Distributed by
- De Laurentiis Entertainment Group
- Release date
- August 15, 1986 ( 1986-08-15 )
- Running time
- 120 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $14–15 million
- Box office
- $8.6 million
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Followed by
- Hannibal Rising
- Based on
- Red Dragon
- Main subject
- serial killer
- Director
- Michael Mann
- Screenwriter
- Michael Mann
- Cast member
- Peter Maloney
- Production company
- Dino De Laurentiis Company
- Cinematographer
- Dante Spinotti
- Narrative location
- St. Louis
- Filming location
- North Carolina
- Duration
- 116
- FilmAffinity ID
- 249119
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1986-08-15
- title
- Manhunter
- production designer
- Mel Bourne
- costume designer
- Colleen Atwood
- after a work by
- Thomas Harris
- distributed by
- Netflix
- capital cost
- 15000000
- different from
- The Sixth Sense
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 75/100
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Encyclopedic overview
Manhunter is a 1986 American crime thriller film directed and written by Michael Mann. Based on the 1981 novel Red Dragon by Thomas Harris, the film stars William Petersen as FBI profiler Will Graham, Tom Noonan as serial killer Francis Dollarhyde, Dennis Farina as Graham's FBI superior Jack Crawford, and Brian Cox as incarcerated killer Hannibal Lecktor. The film focuses on Graham coming out of retirement to lend his talents to an investigation on Dollarhyde, a killer known as the Tooth Fairy. In doing so, he must confront the demons of his past and meet with Lecktor, who nearly killed Graham years before.
The film focuses on the forensic work carried out by the FBI to track down killers and shows the long-term effects that cases like this have on profilers such as Graham, highlighting the similarities between him and his quarry. It features heavily stylized use of color to convey this sense of duality, and the nature of the characters' similarity has been explored in academic analysis of the film. It was the first film adaptation of Harris's Hannibal Lecter novels, as well as the first adaptation of Red Dragon.
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