Instinct (1999)
First screened in June 2020
Director: Jon Turteltaub. Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Anthony Hopkins, Maura Tierney, John Ashton, John Aylward, Thomas Q. Morris, Doug Spinuzza, Paul Bates, George Dzundza, Donald Sutherland, Tracey Ellis, Rex Linn, Rod McLachlan, Kurt Smildsin, Jim R. Coleman. Screenplay: Gerald Di Pego (inspired by the novel Ishmael by Daniel Quinn). Twitter Capsule:
Barely digestible script can't iron out its ape-to-inmate, poacher-to-warden metaphors. Bizarre, but not in welcome ways.
VOR:①
This was the flagship commercial release of a hotly coveted box-office week in early June. This! At least has courage of its inexplicable convictions.
