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DVD : InstinctIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza directed by: Jon Turteltaub  List Price: $14.99 Amazon.com's Price: $11.49 You Save: $3.50 (23%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: HOPKINS,ANTHONY EAN: 9780788817878 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC ISBN: 0788817876 Label: Walt Disney Video Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video Number Of Items: 1 Picture Format: Letterbox Publisher: Walt Disney Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: November 16, 1999 Running Time: 126 minutes Studio: Walt Disney Video Theatrical Release Date: June 04, 1999 Sales Rank: 12747 MPN: DISD18152D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Description: Don't miss Academy Award(R)-winners Anthony Hopkins (Best Actor, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE INNOCENT) and Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Best Supporting Actor, JERRY MAGUIRE, PEARL HARBOR) in this highly provocative psychological thriller from the hit-making director of PHENOMENON and WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING! 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! Also starring Donald Sutherland (A TIME TO KILL, DISCLOSURE) and Maura Tierney (FORCES OF NATURE, LIAR LIAR) in a first-rate cast -- Powell and Caulder's adventure of the mind is a riveting journey of discovery ... no matter what the cost! Amazon.com: Anthony Hopkins is a brilliant actor; Cuba Gooding Jr. is a talented guy with a lot of charm. Both have recently won Oscars (Best Actor for The Silence of the Lambs and Best Supporting Actor for Jerry Maguire, respectively); neither can make Instinct compelling. Hopkins plays a brilliant anthropologist studying gorillas who entered into their world, becoming part of their family, and who killed two park rangers in the gorillas' habitat. Gooding plays a brilliant young psychiatrist who's supposed to evaluate Hopkins and determine whether he's fit to stand trial. Hopkins, along with a number of other psychotics, is being held at a prison, which serves to illustrate the movie's themes about control and freedom. It's not so much that the ideas themselves are hokum--nature versus civilization is always a rich topic--it's that Instinct boils them down to inane sound bites. Psychology is reduced to a game in which the psychiatrist's job is to trick the patient into believing the correct thing or revealing the key that will solve the puzzle. There's not a credible moment in the whole movie, despite the presence of a good cast, including Donald Sutherland (M*A*S*H, Klute, Without Limits, and many, many others) and Maura Tierney (TV's Newsradio). --Bret Fetzer Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Conviction and Confinement.This account of a wild and wooly Anthony Hopkins as a killer par excellence who was rescued from his prison in a jungle somewhere and then confined illegally in the U. S. He had long white hair, strength of an ape (mountain gorillas), and look like Hemingway in 1954. Like the animals he studied so dilligently, he had the instinct to fight for his survival. Dr. Calvin writes about the marvelous ability of humans to think and choose to make decisions, solve problems, forecast the future and even ... Read More Rating: - Remove the music, pleaseThis could be and probably would be an excellent movie if it weren't for the fact that music played loudly throughout the film drowns out the characters' words. I found myself tempted to turn the movie off due to the irritation caused by the disruption, but felt the movie worth watching, regardless. Rating: - Gorilla ThrillaJust another "Man-is-bad,nature-is-good" movie,the point of which is to show brain dead audiences that if humans would just vanish from the earth, the stately animals would prosper. Which is not to disparage the acting of Hopkins and Gooding -- they turn in outstanding performances. And the plot is realistic -- barely so -- and the movie keeps your attention throughout. Except for the two key actors, most of the others are average and uninspiring. And, when the movie's over, you know you have just ... Read More Rating:  - One wonders why Hopkins didn't win an award for his performance,Instinct DVD Instinct was directed by John Turteltaub, and featured an all star cast, Instinct was released in 1999. The film is based on ideas suggested in [[ASIN:B000N7CPIU. Academy Award winner Anthony Hopkins plays Dr. Ethan Powell, a primatologist turned murderer, while Gooding plays Theo Caulder, a young psychiatrist who must unlock the secrets in Powell's mind and unravel the mysteries behind his unusual killings. As the truth comes to light, we learn about how Dr. Powell ... Read More Rating: - Great MovieThe acting in this movie was great and I enjoyed the message of the movie. Calvin Browse for similar items by category:
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