Basic Instinct (Blu-ray)
A brutal murder. A brilliant killer. A cop who can't resist the danger.
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Also released as:
Basic Instinct (Unrated Director's Cut)
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Blu-ray Details
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 24, 2015
- Originally Released: 1992
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Douglas & Sharon Stone | |
Performer: | George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Leilani Sarelle, Wayne Knight, Mitch Pileggi, Denis Arndt, Chelcie Ross, Stephen Tobolowsky, Bruce A. Young, Daniel von Bargen, Jack McGee, James Rebhorn, Stephen Rowe & Dorothy Malone | |
Directed by | Paul Verhoeven | |
Edited by | Frank J. Urioste | |
Screenwriting by | Joe Eszterhas | |
Composition by | Jerry Goldsmith | |
Produced by | Alan Marshall | |
Director of Photography: | Jan de Bont | |
Executive Production by | Mario Kassar |
Entertainment Reviews:
...Visually, it's edgy and impressive...
Entertainment Weekly
The harsh, politically incorrect truth about Basic Instinct is that it's a tantalizing, suspensefully correct thriller.
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Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 2/4 --
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.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
...One charged-up erotic thriller - gory, lurid, brutally funny...
Rolling Stone
Rating: 1/4 --
Here is a film so utterly devoid of art and intellect that nothing remains other than a husk of ridiculous ploys.
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Cinemaphile.org
Verhoeven tries mightily to come across as a twisted Hitchcock, but, like his leads, he's too sick and confused to succeed.
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Hartford Courant
With her high octane gyno-power at full throttle, [Sharon Stone] ... commands our attention now as much as she did on the film's initial release, defiantly holding our gaze if we dare even for a moment let our eyes drift towards anything else.
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Senses of Cinema
Product Description:
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.
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.
Keywords:
Gay / Lesbian
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Psychodrama
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Thriller
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Racy
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Murder
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Cops
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Deception
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Recommended
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