Instinct Movie Review 1999

Primatologist Ethan Powell (Hopkins) has been in the African jungle studying gorillas a little too long, and has turned apeman, killing poachers threatening his primate friends. Since he's been returned to the U.S. and incarcerated in a Miami prison ward for for the insane, he's taken a vow of silence. Theo Caulder (Gooding) is an ambitious shrink who's sent to see if Powell is still (or ever was) a clinical whacko. Hopkins mainly gets to chew the scenery and leave Gooding wide-eyed in his wake. "Suggested" by the novel "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 123 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Sanity Check, Shrinks, Men in Prison, Monkeyshines, Jungle Stories, Miami, Flashback

Screenplay

Gerald Di Pego

Cast

Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding, Donald Sutherland, George Dzundza, Maura Tierney, John Ashton, Paul Bates, John Aylward

Cinematography

Philippe Rousselot

Director

Jon Turteltaub

Music

Danny Elfman

Producer

Michael Taylor, Barbara Boyle, Wolfgang Petersen, Gail Katz, Touchstone Pictures, Spyglass Entertainment, Buena Vista