Instinct Page #7

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Jon Turteltaub
Production: Buena Vista Pictures
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
43
Rotten Tomatoes:
27%
R
Year:
1999
126 min
576 Views


There you go.

Are you gonna leave it

alone now?

For you. Okay. For me.

Hey, Dr. Caulder's here!

Glad to see you, Doc.

Hey! Caulder's back!

Welcome back, Doctor!

Anything he does out there is

gonna come down on my head,

and I'm gonna come down

on yours!

Heard you were long gone back to the city.

I thought you were all through here.

I came back to talk to Powell. Well,

your highflier's gone out the window!

Went through a hole

in the fence.

We think he scaled the other one.

He must have had some help!

And he even wrote

a little note... to you!

Can you make heads or tails

of that? I sure can't.

What?

You're never gonna find him.

You know where he is?

You're never gonna find him.

If you got any idea where... If you're holding

out on me, you could be aiding an escapee.

That is a felony, and I could

have you arrested for that!

I'm beginning to like it here.

"Dear Theo.

"I'm sorry I'm not there

to say good-bye.

"You were right.

Freedom is not just a dream.

"It's there on the other side of those

fences we build all by ourselves.

"Thank you for giving me hope and

for giving me back my daughter.

"And I thank you, Theo, for

sharing this journey with me.

Your friend, Ethan."

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Gerald Di Pego

Gerald Di Pego was born in 1941. He is a writer and producer, known for Instinct (1999), Phenomenon (1996) and The Forgotten (2004). He has been married to Christine DiPego since 1992. He was previously married to Janet Kapsin. more…

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