The Silence of the Lambs was published in 1988, and the movie adaptation hit theaters in 1991, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster as Clarice. It swept the top categories at the 64th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress for Foster (best actor for Anthony Hopkins).
FYI, perhaps the most famous movie line: "I ate his liver with some java beans and a nice chianti," (slurp-slurp-slurp) was not in the book.
The line in the book is: I ate his liver with some java beans and a big Amarone." Amarone is an expensive Italian sweet(er) red wine fermented after the grapes have begun to dry out to become more like raisins than grapes. The process creates a robust (big) wine. Never heard of it until recently re-reading the book. Had to look it up. Which is why Demme went with chianti, I suppose.
Crud! I typed fava beans but autocorrected to java beans. Dangit.