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Basic Instinct premiered in Los Angeles on March 18, 1992, and was theatrically released in the United States by TriStar Pictures on March 20, 1992. The film received mixed reviews upon its release, with praise for the performances of the cast, score, and editing, while its writing and character development were criticized.
Mar 19, 2022 · Jeanne Tripplehorn marked her film debut as Dr. Beth Garner. Yet the true mystery remains just how intense the behind-the-scenes production for “Basic” really was. The San Francisco-set...
- THE SCRIPT SOLD FOR A RECORD $3 MILLION. Back in the day, spec scripts could sell for millions of dollars. Joe Eszterhas joined that club when he sold Basic Instinct—a script that took him just 13 days to write—for $3 million in 1990.
- CATHERINE AND NICK WERE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE. Before he became a multimillionaire screenwriter, Eszterhas was a police reporter for Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer.
- MICHAEL DOUGLAS AND PAUL VERHOEVEN APPROACHED THE MOVIE AS IF IT WERE A DETECTIVE NOVEL. Verhoeven wanted to make a modern version of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller—except with a lot more sex.
- THE ICE PICK SCENE GAVE SHARON STONE NIGHTMARES. In a 1992 interview with Playboy, Stone revealed that she didn’t mind the sex scenes but did mind the violence.
Basic Instinct: Directed by Paul Verhoeven. With Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn. A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
Mar 18, 2021 · The day Basic Instinct came out in theaters I hired a limo. Mimi and I started in Harlem and went to movie theaters all over NYC, from one side of town to the other, into the wee hours of the...
When rock star Johnny Boz is viciously stabbed to death with an ice pick during sex by a mysterious blonde woman, homicide detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is sent to investigate. The only suspect is Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a crime novelist who was the last person to be seen with Boz on the night he died.
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Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. The film follows San Francisco police detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas), who is investigating the brutal murder of a wealthy rock star.
