Basic Instinct

1992. 127 m. Paul Verhoeven. Rialto Pictures. US. English. Rated R.

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In one of Paul Verhoeven’s most provocative 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 mysterious and seductive 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.

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"Sharon Stone, in her first major-league role, comes on like a postfeminist Grace Kelly. She turns her haughty, slightly blank, cheerleader sexiness into something vampish and ominous—an all-American beauty mask."
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

"Basic Instinct transfers Mr. Verhoeven's flair for action-oriented material to the realm of Hitchcockian intrigue, and the results are viscerally effective..."
Janet Maslin, New York Times