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Detective Nick Curran investigates the death of a man found axed and tied to a bed. As his investigation gets under way he becomes involved with one of the chief suspects, writer Catherine Tramell.Product Identifiers
EAN5060021171061
eBay Product ID (ePID)3958792
Product Key Features
Film/TV TitleBasic Instinct
ActorGeorge Dzundza, Leilani Sarelle, Denis Arndt, Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Jeanne Tripplehorn
DirectorPaul Verhoeven
Subtitle LanguageDutch\English\German\Portuguese\Spanish\Turkish
Release Year2002
FeaturesWidescreen, Audio Commentary\Making Of Documentary\Cleaning Up Basic Instinct And Comparison Of The TV Version To The Theatrical Version\Featurette\Photo Gallery\Storyboard Comparisons\Theatrical Trailer\Theatrical Teaser, With Subtitles
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen\2.35 Wide Screen
GenreThriller, General
Additional Product Features
Certificate18
Number of Discs1
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Director of PhotographyJan de Bont
ReviewsEntertainment Weekly - ...Visually, it's edgy and impressive..., Rolling Stone - ...One charged-up erotic thriller - gory, lurid, brutally funny..., 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...
Dubbing LanguagesGerman\Spanish
Additional InformationThis 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.<BR>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.
Movie/TV TitleBasic Instinct
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1\Dolby Surround \DTS 5.1
ScreenwriterJoe Eszterhas