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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Lionsgate
EAN: 0012236191599
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 29, 2007
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 5014
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: March 20, 1992
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Product Description:
Lionsgate Basic Instinct (Blu-ray)
Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran, a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone costars as Catherine Tramell, a cold,calculating, and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered - acrime she had described in her latest novel. But would she be so obvious as to write about a crime she was going to commit? Or is she being set up bya jealous rival? Obsessed with cracking the case,Nick descends into San Francisco's forbidden underground where suspicions mount, bodies fall, and he finds within himself an instinct more basic thansurvival.
Amazon.com:
The take-no-prisoners sex thriller from 1992 now stands as a milestone in the career of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, but in the hands of director Paul Verhoeven Basic Instinct is an undeniably stylish and provocative study of obsession. In the role that made her a star (and showed the audience a little more skin than she intended), Sharon Stone plays the cleverly manipulative novelist Catherine Tramell who snares San Francisco detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) with her insatiable sexual appetite during the investigation of her boyfriend's murder. Tramell is the prime suspect, but the plot twists and turns until Curran is trapped in a dangerous cycle of dead ends and unsolved murders, never sure if Tramell is committing the crimes or if it is some other, unknown suspect. With a plot that keeps viewers guessing, Basic Instinct is the work of a director who is clearly in his element. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A masterpiece that gets better with age
BASIC INSTINCT is a masterpiece of human behavior and frailty that could never be made now in these days of extreme political correctness. It pulls no punches in portraying the characters in harsh reality, without remorse or apologies for their flaws.
After viewing the movie through once, I went back to the "Extras" and turned on the commentary by the psychologist. Her observations were spellbinding, and I found myself watching the entire movie again. I highly recommend her commentary ... Read More
Rating:  - Apart from All the Rest -- Sharon Saves Movie......
Ho Hum. Another Michael Douglas film whereby the puzzle's the thing, and your quest to have them reveal the answer creates more confusion for your brain cells. Not to say this isn't entertaining.
Michael is a detective who has been excessive in his self destruction (booze and cigarettes) and the department is keeping an annoying prying eye on him. Investigating a murder, he comes across the not caring one bit out of the mainstream Sharon Stone. She lives life on the edge, and he becomes more deeply ... Read More
Rating: - One of my all time favorites.
Amazing movie from start to finish.
It starts with a bang (literally) and ends with one, once again literally.
My pathetic humor aside, excellent movie, Great acting, great story, great twists and turns. I remember the public outrage when this came out.
How funny, it seems almost tame by todays standards, or lack there of.
My only gripe.
Couldn't they have found a better leading man than Douglas?
Who wants to look at his saggy old man body?
That minor conplaint aside, ... Read More
Rating: - The directors cut Generates Heat!
For the few extra minutes of footage, and the bonus features (to see Stone's real audition is worth it alone, it had to be her) this is worth it. The movie is still engaging after all these years, it's a mighty fine erotic thriller. The Directors Cut generates even more heat! Whew...
Rating: - One of my favorites growing up
Paul Verhoeven has created a masterwork from Joe Eszterhas' controversial script. Several sex scenes become a leitmotif, as the participants appear to pummel, rather than love, one another with their nether parts. But the most rugged and the most erotic scene occurs between Detective Nick Curran, Michael Douglas, and his colleague, Beth Garner, portrayed by Jeanne Tripplehorn. He throws her against a wall and then against the back of a chesterfield. That is only the foreplay. In this film sex is violence, and ... Read More
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