Instinct (1999)

Directed by

Jon Turteltaub

Genre

drama film, prison film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 06m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 660 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An anthropologist who studied gorillas goes violent and ends up in prison. A psychiatrist tries to understand why he lost his mind.

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What happens

Instinct is a 1999 American psychological thriller film, directed by Jon Turteltaub, and starring Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza, and John Ashton. It was very-loosely-inspired by Ishmael, a novel by Daniel Quinn. In the United States, the film had the working title Ishmael. In 2000, the film was nominated for and won a Genesis Award in the category of feature film. This was the first film produced by Spyglass Entertainment. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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