Basic Instinct
September 19, 2022
A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
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In one of Verhoeven's most provacative films, Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) becomes ensnared in a web of sex, lies, and violence, all leading back to Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a seductive, mysterious crime novelist. As the bodies pile up and hidden obsessions are revealed, Curran begins to doubt his investigatory instincts and give in to his baser ones.
- Director: Paul Verhoeven
- Principal Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza
- Country: USA
- Year: 1992
- Running Time: 127 min.
- Producer: Alan Marshall
- Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas
- Cinematographers: Jan de Bont
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- US Distributor: Rialto Pictures