Michael Mann's Manhunter: The Final Cut
July 31 - August 6, 2026
A new 4K Restoration of Michael Mann’s definitive director’s cut. Will Graham (William Petersen), a former FBI profiler, is cajoled out of retirement to help an old colleague track down a serial killer called "The Tooth Fairy." The question is: can they find the man in time to end his killing spree?
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. Visiting Lecktor in his high-security cell, Graham requests his insights. But when the wardens discover a note from the Tooth Fairy in Lecktor’s affairs, it becomes clear that he is ensnaring his FBI counterpart in a deadly game.
As a risky sting operation turns a tabloid journalist into the Tooth Fairy’s latest victim, the murderer—in reality, photographic lab worker Francis Dollarhyde (Tom Noonan)—begins a relationship with his blind co-worker, Reba McClane (Joan Allen). In order to reach her in time, as well as safeguard his own family, Graham must put his sanity on the line once again by delving into the psychopathic landscape of a killer’s dreams.
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.
- Director: Michael Mann
- Principal Cast: William Petersen, Dennis Farina, Kim Greist, Brian Cox
- Country: USA
- Year: 1986
- Running Time: 119 min.
- Producer: Richard Roth
- Screenplay: Michael Mann
- Cinematographers: Dante Spinotti
- Language: English