Instinct (1999)
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
This week on Shat the Movies, we’re cracking open Instinct (1999), the psychological thriller where Anthony Hopkins goes full jungle hermit and Cuba Gooding Jr. tries to figure out why. It’s part Gorillas in the Mist, part Good Will Hunting, and totally off the rails. Tune in as we try to make sense of the madness, the monkeys, and the message!
Plot Summary
Years after he goes missing in the jungles of Africa, anthropologist Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins) resurfaces when it’s discovered that he has murdered two poachers who were killing the gorillas he was studying. After spending an extended time living with the primates and without any human contact, Powell seems to be unhinged, and psychiatrist Theo Caulder (Cuba Gooding Jr.) is called in to try to get through to the withdrawn and angry man, who may be wiser and saner than he appears.
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| 0:00.8 | He got those from the giver, Dr. Calder. |
| 0:04.2 | It must have been a lot. |
| 0:04.8 | I know what it takes to paint a room, Gene. |
| 0:07.6 | Oh, do you? |
| 0:08.7 | Yes, you get a couple gallons of paint. |
| 0:10.8 | He wasn't going to do that arts and crafts on those little like jars of paint. |
| 0:15.1 | Yeah, but you don't have guerrilla abilities. |
| 0:17.4 | Gorillas would have painted with shit and blood. |
| 0:20.0 | If he did the mural in human feces and body fluids, then yes, he learned a lot from his |
| 0:25.6 | primate friends. |
| 0:26.9 | Remember when we first met John McLean? |
| 0:29.9 | Our god picked him up from the plane and took him down the Nakatomi Tower at the Christmas |
| 0:36.3 | party. |
| 0:37.3 | And the terrorists were overzealous, but it was sweet when they killed Ellis. |
| 0:43.0 | And with a little help from Allen, John McClain kicked out. |
| 0:47.1 | Welcome back to chat, the movies, the podcast where we answered the question with the movies we loved when we were growing up really that good. |
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