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Basic Instinct
Directed by
Paul Verhoeven
R
1992
2h 8m
Mystery
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Thriller
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7.1
55%
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A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
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Cast of Basic Instinct
Michael Douglas
Detective Nick Curran
Sharon Stone
Catherine Tramell
George Dzundza
Gus
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Dr. Beth Garner
Denis Arndt
Lieutenant Walker
Leilani Sarelle
Roxy
Bruce A. Young
Andrews
Chelcie Ross
Captain Talcott
Dorothy Malone
Hazel Dobkins
Wayne Knight
John Correli
Daniel von Bargen
Lieutenant Nilsen
Stephen Tobolowsky
Dr. Lamott
Benjamin Mouton
Harrigan
Jack McGee
Sheriff
Bill Cable
Johnny Boz
Stephen Rowe
Internal Affairs Investigator
Mitch Pileggi
Internal Affairs Investigator
Mary Pat Gleason
Juvenile Officer
Freda Foh Shen
Berkeley Registrar
William Duff-Griffin
Dr. Myron
James Rebhorn
Dr. McElwaine
David Wells
Polygraph Examiner
Bradford English
Campus Policeman
Mary Ann Rodgers
Nurse
Adilah Barnes
Nurse
Irene Olga López
Maid
Juanita Jennings
Receptionist
Craig C. Lewis
Bartender | Police Bar
Michael Lally
Detective
Peter Appel
Detective
Michael Halton
Bartender | Country Western Bar
Keith McDaniel
Featured Dancer
Eric Poppick
Coroner's Guy
Ron Cacas
Policeman
Kayla Blake
Roxy's Friend
Ken Liebenson
Doo Wah Riders
Lindy Rasmusson
Doo Wah Riders
Byron Berline
Doo Wah Riders
Eddie Dunbar
Doo Wah Riders
Tom McKibbin
Doo Wah Riders
Julie Bond
Hand Puppet Model
Christa Connor
Disco Patron (uncredited)
Anne Lockhart
Disco Patron (uncredited)
Patricia Anne Isgate-Hayward
Classmate (uncredited)
Dave LaBrucherie
Driver (uncredited)
Pui Fan Lee
Mrs. Rollins (uncredited)
Andy Rolfes
Police Officer (uncredited)
Bob Sallese
Internal Affairs Detective (uncredited
Theodore Carl Soderberg
Disco Bartender (uncredited)
Damon Stout
Disco Patron (uncredited)
Basic Instinct Reviews
Chicago Tribune
Dave Kehr
Verhoeven does not explore the dark side, but merely exploits it, and that makes all the difference in the world.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
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.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Call me a prude, but it's not sexy watching an erotic thriller in which every time a couple does it, one of them gets it with an ice pick. I don't care how many firmly toned tummies and tushes are bared.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
Slick, clever and entertainingly overheated while you're watching it, Basic Instinct starts to evaporate the second you leave the theater.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
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.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Basic Instinct transfers Mr. Verhoeven's flair for action-oriented material to the realm of Hitchcockian intrigue, and the results are viscerally effective even when they don't make sense.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The film is like a crossword puzzle. It keeps your interest until you solve it. Then it's just a worthless scrap with the spaces filled in.
Bitch Media
Carrie Nelson
Basic Instinct depicts queerness in the most sinister ways imaginable.
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
[The film has] a smug faith in the ability of its own speed, smartness and luxe to wow the yokels.
Orlando Sentinel
Jay Boyar
The harsh, politically incorrect truth about Basic Instinct is that it's a tantalizing, suspensefully correct thriller.
The New Yorker
Terrence Rafferty
A vicious, grindingly manipulative urban mystery that uses a thick atmosphere of S&M kinkiness to distract the audience from the story's thinness and inanity.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Despite (or maybe because of) his obligatory nods to Hitchcock, this is slick and entertaining enough to work as thriller porn, even with two contradictory denouements to its mystery.
Variety
Variety Staff
This erotically charged thriller about the search for an ice-pick murderer in San Francisco rivets attention through its sleek style, attractive cast doing and thinking kinky things, and story, which is as weirdly implausible as it is intensely visceral.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Verhoeven's cinematic wet dream delivers the goods, especially when Sharon Stone struts on with enough come-on carnality to singe the screen.
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
These actors seem driven less by real emotions than Eveready bunny batteries.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
A predictable, surprisingly uninvolving affair.
Gone With The Twins
Mike Massie
Even as Verhoeven is pushing buttons and stretching the boundaries of conventionality, he still incorporates artsy filmmaking techniques.
Bustle
Casey Cipriani
The classic erotic neo-noir thriller...Sure, this one has questionable morals, but at least the woman has all the power.
Austin Chronicle
Kathleen Maher
The story has to move along at a fair clip because otherwise we'd notice how nonsensical it all is.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...a slick, stylish, and generally unsatisfying thriller from a distressingly erratic filmmaker.
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