| | | Unrated Director's Cut
Features: DVD, Unrated, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1); Dolby Digital Stereo, Commentary, Featurette, Photography, Screen Tests, Storyboard, Trailers, English, Spanish, French Subtitled
San Francisco detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is investigating the murder of a once-celebrated rock star, and he's made a few unsettling discoveries: a bloody ice pick...a white scarf tied to a bedpost...and evidence of an otherwise romantic evening. As Nick digs into the case, he becomes entangled in a deadly affair involving three intriguing women, each with an unexpected motive for the crime. Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) is a fast-living, sexually-adventurous novelist whose fictional murders have a strange way of coming true. Roxy (Leilani Sarelle) is Catherine's street-wise, provocative girlfriend. Dr. Beth Garner (Jeanne Tripplehorn) is a police psychologist counseling Nick. Nick thrives on the chase, and some say he likes it too much: a history of "accidental" killings in the line of duty, in addition to heavy drinking, have earned him the nickname "Shooter." On this chase, however, Nick is in disturbingly unfamiliar territory, and the evidence seems only to obscure the truth. Seduced by Catherine, Nick finds himself drawn into a maze of mind games, love, excess and murder where he finds within himself an instinct more basic than survival.
"This is one of those movies everything you heard about is true." Joel Siegel, Good Morning America
"In-your-face sex thriller...Audacious, erotic and larger-than-life..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"A darkly phobic lust story..." Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Editor's Note
This 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.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.
Plot Summary
While investigating a mysterious death, San Francisco cop Nick Curran finds himself in a deadly triangle with three beautiful but dangerous women. One of these women, Catherine Trammel, a murder mystery writer who seduces prototypes for her characters, is high on the list of suspects--and her next story is about a cop who falls for the wrong woman.
| Features | Sharon Stone DVD Introduction | | A Conversation With Sharon Stone | | Commentary with Director Paul Verhoeven and Director of Photography Jan De Bont | | Blonde Poison: The Making of Basic Instinct | | Screen Tests | | Cleaning Up Basic Instinct | | Storyboard Comparisons | | Trailers | | Widescreen Presentation | | Audio: English Dolby Digital (5.1); Dolby Digital Stereo | | Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
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| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 5/22/2007 |
| Running Time: 128 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1992 | | Catalog ID: 18848 | | UPC: 00012236188483 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Nominee (1993) | | | Golden Globe, Sharon Stone, Best Performance By An Actress In A Motion Picture-Drama | | | Golden Globe, Jerry Goldsmith, Best Original Motion Picture Score | |
Winner (1993) | | | MTV Award, Sharon Stone, Best Female Performance | | | MTV Award, Sharon Stone, Most Desirable Female | |
Nominee (1993) | | | MTV Award, Michael Douglas, Best Male Performance | | | MTV Award, Basic Instinct, Best Movie | | | MTV Award, "Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone", Best On-Screen Duo | | | Oscar, Frank J. Urioste, Best Film Editing | | | Oscar, Jerry Goldsmith, "Best Music, Original Score" | |
Nominee (1992) | | | Cannes Film Festival, Jerry Goldsmith, Golden Palm |
| Memorable Quotes| "Were you ever engaged in any sadomasochistic activity?"----John Correli (Wayne Knight) to Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) during interrogation|"Exactly what did you have in mind, Mr. Correli?"----Catherine | | "There's no smoking in this building, Ms. Tramell."----Correli|"What're you going do? Charge me with smoking?"----Catherine |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...One charged-up erotic thriller - gory, lurid, brutally funny..." 04/16/1992 p.89-90New 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..." 03/20/1992 p.C8 Entertainment Weekly
"...Visually, it's edgy and impressive..." 03/20/1992 p.50-2 Rolling Stone 8 of 10
...Basic Instinct doesn't waste time establishing priorities. This is one charged-up erotic thriller--gory, lurid, brutally funny and without a politically correct thought in its unapologetically empty head. Still, director Paul Verhoeven...delivers the goods, especially when Sharon Stone struts on with enough come-on carnality to singe the screen. - Peter Travers
Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
Apart from the whodunit elements, the movie exists for its sexual content. The Stone character, described as "world class" by Douglas after one night in the sack, is a kinky seductress with the kind of cold, challenging verbal style that many men take as a challenge. Her friends include a woman who once killed her entire family; she needs these people, she says, as inspiration for her novels. Her next book, she tells Douglas, staring him straight in the eye, will be about a police detective who falls in love with the wrong woman. The sex scenes, threatened with the NC-17 rating until 45 seconds were removed to qualify for the R, belong in that strange neverland created by the MPAA's Hollywood morality. They aren't much by the standards of really daring movies, but they do go far enough to make the "R" rating into a fiction. Seeing movies that walk the ratings line like this, I realize that good soft-core is more erotic than trimmed-down would-be hard-core, and that the movie would have been more of a turn-on if it hadn't tried so hard. The sex resembles a violent contact sport, with a scoring system known only to the players. - Roger Ebert
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