Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Based on the Jules Verne novel, a scientist leads his exploration party on a dangerous journey in an attempt to reach the center of the earth. With him, among others, are his Icelandic guide, one of his students, and the widow of a geologist, a former colleague and competitor, who steals his information in an attempt to beat him to the earth's core. Along the way the group are confronted by any number of obstacles and perils: extreme heat and cold, gale force winds, and tremendous floods, as well as experiencing the awesome and sublime beauty of hidden realms never before seen by man.
