Basic Instinct
In San Francisco, homicide detective Nick Curran investigates the murder of retired rock star Johnny Boz, who has been stabbed to death with an ice pick during sex with a mysterious blonde woman. Nick's only suspect is Boz's bisexual girlfriend, crime novelist Catherine Tramell, who has written a novel that mirrors the crime. It is concluded that either Catherine is the murderer or someone is attempting to frame her. Catherine is uncooperative and taunting during the investigation, smoking and exposing herself during her interrogation. She has an alibi and passes a lie detector test. Nick discovers Catherine has a history of befriending murderers, including her girlfriend Roxy, who killed her two younger brothers, on impulse, when she was sixteen years of age, and Hazel Dobkins, who killed her husband and children for no apparent reason.
MPAA Rating: | R |
Genre: | Drama, Mystery, Thriller |
Country: | France, United States |
Produced By: | Alan Marshall, William S. Beasley, Mario Kassar, Louis D'Esposito |
Directed By: | Paul Verhoeven |
Written By: | Joe Eszterhas |
Cast: | Ron Cacas, Chelcie Ross, Stephen Rowe, Theodore Carl Soderberg, Patricia Anne Isgate-Hayward, Bradford English, Michael David Lally, Craig C. Lewis, Eric Poppick, Irene Olga López, Peter Appel, George Dzundza, Benjamin Mouton, Jack McGee, Damon Stout, Wayne Knight, Sharon Stone, Jeanne Tripplehorn, David Wells, Leilani Sarelle, Freda Foh Shen, Adilah Barnes, Jeanne Basone, Daniel Von Bargen, Bill Cable, Anne Lockhart, Michael Halton, James Rebhorn, Denis Arndt, Dorothy Malone, Juanita Jennings, Mary Pat Gleason, Kayla Blake, Doreen Foo Croft, William Duff-Griffin, Stephen Tobolowsky, Bruce A. Young, Andy Rolfes, Mitch Pileggi, Dave LaBrucherie, Michael Douglas |
In Theaters: | Mar 20, 1992 |
Runtime: | 2 hours 7 minutes |
Production: | Carolco Pictures, Canal+ |
Budget: | $49,000,000 |
Box Office: | $117,727,224 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Netflix, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |