Basic Instinct
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- Synopsis
- This cold, stylish erotic-thriller grossed over $100 million at the box-office despite vigorous protests at its depiction of gays and women. The shocking opening sequence features a graphic sexual encounter involving a rock-star bound with a white ......
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- Director(s)
- Paul Verhoeven
- Distributor(s)
- Artisan
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 127 min.
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Variety | Staff (Not Credited)Add Critic to Favorites
Grade-A pulp fiction. 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.Read the full review
Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites
The film is for horny pups of all ages who relish the memory of reading stroke books under the covers with a flashlight. Verhoeven has spent $49 million to reproduce that dirty little thrill on the big screen.Read the full review
Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites
Beneath its heavy-breathing fripperies, though, Basic Instinct is mechanical and routine, a muddle of Hitchcockian red herrings and standard cop-thriller ballistics.Read the full review
