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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 14, 2006
- Originally Released: 1992
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Douglas & Sharon Stone | |
Performer: | George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leilani Sarelle, Wayne Knight, Mitch Pileggi, Denis Arndt, Chelcie Ross, Stephen Tobolowsky, Bruce A. Young, Daniel von Bargen, Jack McGee, James Rebhorn, Stephen Rowe & Dorothy Malone | |
Directed by | Paul Verhoeven | |
Edited by | Frank J. Urioste | |
Screenwriting by | Joe Eszterhas | |
Composition by | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Produced by | Alan Marshall | |
Director of Photography: | Jan de Bont | |
Executive Production by | Mario Kassar |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1/4 --
Verhoeven does not explore the dark side, but merely exploits it, and that makes all the difference in the world.
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Chicago Tribune
Flashy, raunchy and schlocky, Basic Instinct is classic nineties noir for which Verhoeven's overblown direction and Stone's exposure secured a place in movie history.
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Film4
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Slick, clever and entertainingly overheated while you're watching it, Basic Instinct starts to evaporate the second you leave the theater.
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Seattle 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...
New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
Basic Instinct is a reminder of the difference between exhilaration and exhaustion, between tension and hysteria, between eroticism and exhibitionism. The line may be fine, but it is real enough to separate the great thrillers from the also-rans.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
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.
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Radio Times
Rating: 1/4 --
Here is a film so utterly devoid of art and intellect that nothing remains other than a husk of ridiculous ploys.
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Cinemaphile.org
Product Description:
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.
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.
Keywords:
Gay / Lesbian
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Psychodrama
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Thriller
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Racy
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Murder
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Cops
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