Hello, Clarice. Pull up a chair. Come and listen to episode fifteen of Deep Dish Movie Month, all about the career of Jodie Foster, from her preternaturally wise youth to her choice to direct a film about a British beaver puppet. Yes, yes. Don't be afraid.

This episode's films: Freaky Friday (1976), Bugsy Malone, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Taxi Driver, The Accused, Silence of the Lambs, Little Man Tate, Maverick, Nell, Contact, Flightplan, Panic Room, Inside Man, Elysium, The Beaver.

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