Instinct

Is Instinct right for your family?

Movie 1999 124 min

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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Provisional estimate — not yet fully analyzed. R (US)

Likely present: ViolenceHeavy emotional contentEducational content

A psychiatrist examining a criminal anthropologist in a psychiatric hospital suggests educational and heavy emotional themes.

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