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.
Basic Instinct
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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies
Basic Instinct
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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."
"Basic Instinct transfers Mr. Verhoeven's flair for action-oriented material to the realm of Hitchcockian intrigue, and the results are viscerally effective..."
This film is part of the After Hours series.
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