The read
Audiences rate it 22 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,941 1990s drama movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb6.5/10
Rotten Tomatoes27%
Metacritic43/100
Audiences rate it 22 points higher than critics do.
680 audience votes
Key crew
- Jon TurteltaubDirector
- Gerald Di PegoScreenplay
- Danny ElfmanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Anthony HopkinsDr. Ethan Powell
- Cuba Gooding Jr.Dr. Theo Caulder
- Donald SutherlandBen Hillard
- Maura TierneyLynn Powell
- George DzundzaDr. John Murray
- John AshtonGuard Dacks
- John AylwardWarden Keefer
- Doug SpinuzzaNicko
- Thomas Q. MorrisPete
- Vivienne SendaydiegoCatherine
- Paul BatesBluto
- Rex LinnGurad Alan
