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Loosely based on the novel Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn, the story follows anthropologist and primatologist Powell (Hopkins), who travels to Rwanda and becomes so engrossed in the mountain gorillas he is studying that he chooses to live among them. When park rangers discover the miss- ing doctor, he snaps, murders two rangers and ends up in a prison for the criminally insane. Cuba Gooding Jr. plays a psychi- atric resident whose mentor (Donald Sutherland) asks him to evaluate Powell, who hasn't spoken for years. The young psychiatrist sets out to treat him — and solidify his own career. But their roles get reversed. "I think the film is interesting and provocative in a way that I hope will inspire audiences to think what our priorities are to ourselves and others," says Turteltaub. The director, whose credits include 1993's Cool Runnings, 1995's While You Were Sleeping and 1996's Phenomenon, eagerly jumped into the project after the film's original director didn't work out, and spent four months shooting in Jamaica, the West Indies, Orlando and Los Angeles. "This was the smoothest, easiest shoot I've ever been on," he main- tains, "even [with] what could have been considered a huge bump in the road. During one of the scenes, Anthony Hopkins snapped his Achilles tendon, yet he refused to get it fixed. He just wanted to keep film- WE CUT OUR LOX BY HAND! ing. We forced him to have surgery. We stopped shooting for about three months and then picked up again." Such is the life of a guy who grew up in the Hollywood limelight. Born in New York, Turteltaub was raised in an observant Jewish home in Beverly Hills, Calif. His father, Saul, is a well- known television producer whose credits include Sanford es. Son, What's Happening, That Girl and Love — American Style. Even as a young boy, Turteltaub showed signs of a future career in show business. "If you're kind of a showoff and crazy and like entertain- ing people and making them laugh, in some families people might say, 'That kid's an idiot.' In my house, they said, `Oh, the kid's got talent.'" In addition to encouraging their two sons to be creative, Turteltaub's parents also emphasized the impor- tance of living a Jewish life. The fami- ly kept kosher (something Turteltaub still does to some degree) and observed Shabbat and other holidays. "I feel very closely connected to being Jewish," admits Turteltaub, 35. "If someone were to say, 'Who are you?' I would include the word Jewish right up there. It has profoundly affected my life. It is something that I cherish." Though he has never worked on an inherently Jewish film, Turteltaub says he respects the film industry's interest in exploring issues pertaining to the Jewish experience. 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