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Basic Instinct
on DVD (1992)
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| Starring: |
Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Jeanne Tripplehorn, George Dzundza, Dennis Arndt, Leilani Sarelle |
| Director: |
Paul Verhoeven |
| Studio: |
MOMENTUM PICTURES |
| Run time: |
120 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| Collections: |
100 Feisty Females |
| User collections: |
Getting The Horn, Best for filth scenes, Thrilling Thrillers!!!, Movies to watch alone!, Femme Fatale, Films that bored me rigid, MAD MEN, PSYCHO'S, SERIAL KILLERS AND BOOGEY MEN, Top100 Great Films |
| Genres: |
Thriller |
| Languages: |
English |
| Dubbed: |
German, Spanish |
| Subtitles: |
Dutch, English, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish |
| Released: |
20/05/2002
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Brief synopsis of Basic Instinct
This steamy thriller to end all steamy thrillers stars Michael Douglas as Nick, a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case--manipulative, sexually uninhibited novelist Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone). Catherine's latest book features a murder uncannily similar to the one Nick is investigating, and as the pair engage in a mating dance of dangerous one-upmanship, more murders occur, all described in her current work, about a boozy cop in love with a killer. Nick's psychiatrist (Jeanne Tripplehorn), and cop partner (George Dzundza) are both worried about him, and Catherine's jealous lesbian lover (Leilani Sarelle) may be trying to kill him, but Nick is just too turned on to care.
Director Paul Verhoeven shows an admirable lack of restraint in this ludicrously enjoyable thriller, a sort of postmodern noir with Joe Eszterhas's script coming off like Mamet by way of Penthouse. Stone and Douglas exhibit fine chemistry (and most of their bodies), and there's some lovely Bay Area scenery courtesy of cinematographer Jan de Bont (who went on to direct films such as SPEED and TWISTER). Wayne Knight (Newman from SEINFELD) and Mitch Pileggi (Skinner from THE X-FILES) are precinct heads who question Catherine in the infamous leg-crossing scene.
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Radio Times
Director Paul Verhoeven's reputation is built on his wonderful lack of taste and restraint, and these “qualities” are fully to the fore in this controversial but massively successful thriller. Sharon Stone became a sex symbol of the 1990s for her cool portrayal of the predatory novelist who may or may not be a murderer, but who enjoys tormenting policeman Michael Douglas all the same. Writer Joe Eszterhas shamelessly reworks ideas and themes he had earlier exploited in films such as Jagged Edge and Music Box, but the sheer overheated nature of Verhoeven's direction makes this extremely watchable.
Halliwell's Film Guide
Overheated, overlong melodramatic thriller with an implausible plot that requires its audience to accept that Michael Douglas is irresistibly attractive to bisexual women. But the skill and pace of the direction makes one regret that they were not exercis
New York Times
"...[A] red-hot, dangerously modern romance [that] will never be accused of not knowing how to get an audience's attention....[Stone is] chilling..."
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