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About
Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
Theatrical
Mar 20, 1992
Box Office
$352.9M
Budget
$49.0M
Return
7.2x
DVD / Blu-ray
Aug 27, 1997
Theaters
41
Director
Writer
Producers
Music
Studio
Carolco Pictures, Le Studio Canal+
Keywords
california
sexual obsession
san francisco, california
detective
jealousy
eroticism
suspicion of murder
bisexuality
dying and death
lover
striptease
sadism
police
psychopath
celebrity
femme fatale
sociopath
dead
neo-noir
erotic thriller
manipulative woman
book writing
killed during sex
american giallo
Quotes
See all →Exploring Female Perspectives in Basic Instinct
Quotes about Basic Instinct
*] interview in Backtalk: women writers speak out by Donna Marie Perry (1993)
[[Gloria E. Anzaldúa]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Challenging Media Representation of LGBTQ+ Communities
Quotes about Basic Instinct
the lesbian community is under siege, we always try to present to the heterosexual community the idealized version, but I do not think that's a good way to do it, even though I can understand where it's coming from. ("] talked about the kinds of self-censorship she finds in her work when she starts thinking she should present only positive images of lesbians or working-class people.") Yes. In that poem and also in the poem "Night Voice" I do that. There's this whole controversy now over media images of lesbians and gays and bisexuals. It's brought out in movies like Basic Instinct and Silence of the Lambs where they are presented as killers. It comes up in the novels of ], where she has these criminals who are lesbians or gay men. And I hate that. But, at the same time, I want the dirty laundry to be out there, whether it's on the Mexican culture or the lesbian culture or the bisexual. And I'm not sure how you do that.
[[Valerie Miner; [P. D. James]
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
Basic Instinct Collection
Two movies following the manipulative and seductive novelist Catherine Tramell.
Cast
Full credits →M
Michael Douglas
Detective Nick Curran
S
Sharon Stone
Catherine Tramell
G
George Dzundza
Gus
J
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Dr. Beth Garner
D
Denis Arndt
Lieutenant Walker
L
Leilani Sarelle
Roxy
B
Bruce A. Young
Andrews
C
Chelcie Ross
Captain Talcott
D
Dorothy Malone
Hazel Dobkins
W
Wayne Knight
John Correli
D
Daniel von Bargen
Lieutenant Nilsen
S
Stephen Tobolowsky
Dr. Lamott
B
Benjamin Mouton
Harrigan
J
Jack McGee
Sheriff
S
Stephen Rowe
Internal Affairs Investigator
M
Mitch Pileggi
Internal Affairs Investigator
M
Mary Pat Gleason
Juvenile Officer
F
Freda Foh Shen
Berkeley Registrar
W
William Duff-Griffin
Dr. Myron
J
James Rebhorn
Dr. McElwaine
