Storyline
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. 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.
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Cast
Donald Sutherland, Paul Bates, Jim Grimshaw, Pat McNamara, Rex Linn, John Aylward, Marc Macaulay, Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., John Ashton, George Dzundza, Tracey Ellis, Ivonne Coll, Maura Tierney, Doug Spinuzza, Ajgie Kirkland, Rod McLachlan, Thomas Q. Morris, Jim R. Coleman, Vivienne Sendaydiego, Paul Collins, Kim Ingram, Louanne Stephens, Chike Kani Omo, Roger Floyd, Kurt Smildsin, Gary Bristow
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Reviews
70
Although Instinct is strictly a Hollywood formula picture, it's such an efficiently executed one, built around two such outstanding actors, that for the most part you won't mind.
63
ReelViews
A perfect example of how solid directing and good acting can almost redeem a derivative story.
60
The medium is more palatable than the saccharine message because Hopkins and Gooding know how to put on a show.
50
The warning against actors playing with dogs or children should be expanded to include men in gorilla suits.
50
The A.V. Club
A mushy-headed, unintentionally funny inspirational drama that plays like a clumsy attempt to crossbreed "The Shawshank Redemption" and "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest."
