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• Instinct [1999]

  Georgina Price 31 August 2010

  

  Lovely film, but some shocking moments that will make you cry. Anthony Hopkins plays a very moving character and Cuba Gooding Jr is fantastic as the psychiatrist. Compelling storyline, and great script.

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  Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play.   In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell (Hopkins) is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder (Gooding). Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything - even put his very life on the line - in a harrowing attempt to understand the bizarre actions of this madman! Caulder's adventure of the mind is a riveting journey of discovery, no matter what the cost...     Actors Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza & John Ashton Director Jon Turteltaub Certificate 15 years and over Year 1999 Screen Widescreen 2.35:1 Languages English ; German ; French ; Italian - Dolby Digital (5.1) Additional Languages Dolby Surround: Czech Subtitles Croatian ; Dutch ; English for the hearing impaired ; French ; German ; German for the hearing impaired ; Italian ; Polish Duration 1 hour and 58 minutes (approx)

Young psychiatric resident Theo Caulder (Cuba Gooding Jr) is chosen to evaluate the mental competence of anthropologist Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), determining whether he is fit to stand trial for murder. Powell has been extradited from Rwanda where he was captured by the authorities after killing members of a search party sent to locate him. It emerges that after years spent among the gorillas, Powell has adopted an ape-like mindset and rejected accepted human morality. Caulder soon realises that Powell is every bit his intellectual equal, and that exploring the anthropologist's mind may take him into increasingly dangerous territory.