Instinct

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-06-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

126 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (25749 Reviews)

Director:

Jon Turteltaub

Genres:

Drama Thriller

Cast:

Anthony Hopkins Cuba Gooding Jr. Donald Sutherland Maura Tierney

Writer:

Gerald Di Pego (screenplay)

Gerald Di Pego (screen story)

Daniel Quinn (novel)

Fullplot:

Nearly two years after having gone amiss in Africa, renowned anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell is caught committing a crime and subsequently imprisoned in a Florida mental institution, where aspiring psychiatrist Dr. Theo Calder takes over his important case. Dr. Powell, who has been with a group of gorillas during all that time, is not talking at all and seems to be living in a dreamworld. Very slowly, Dr. Calder manages to reach Ethan Powell and starts finding out why Ethan killed two of the poachers. Yet Theo's case is not just about why the murders have happened, but also about how Dr. Powell became the being he is in the first place. With Ethan's silence broken, Theo is introduced into a world beyond common human comprehension: The true nature of being. He learns that mankind's control of everything is a mere illusion and that the true values of existence can't be found so easily. Ethan changes Theo's view of things forever.

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