The read
Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do. The highest scoring of the 2 titles in its series.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes56%
Metacritic43/100
Audiences rate it 28 points higher than critics do.
4,522 audience votes
Key crew
- Paul VerhoevenDirector
- Joe EszterhasScreenplay
- Jerry GoldsmithOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Michael DouglasDetective Nick Curran
- Sharon StoneCatherine Tramell
- George DzundzaGus
- Jeanne TripplehornDr. Beth Garner
- Denis ArndtLieutenant Walker
- Leilani SarelleRoxy
- Bruce A. YoungAndrews
- Chelcie RossCaptain Talcott
- Dorothy MaloneHazel Dobkins
- Wayne KnightJohn Correli
- Daniel von BargenLieutenant Nilsen
- Stephen TobolowskyDr. Lamott
Stills
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Themes
dying and deathcaliforniajealousysexual obsessionpolicesan francisco, californiasadismpsychopathdetectiveeroticismbisexualitysuspicion of murder
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Basic Instinct is #36 of 46
