Basic Instinct

This steamy thriller to end all steamy thrillers stars Michael Douglas as Nick, a boozy San Francisco police detective who finds himself drawn to the prime suspect in a murder case manipulative, sexually uninhibited novelist Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone).

Catherine's latest book features a murder uncannily similar to the one Nick is investigating, and as the pair engage in a mating dance of dangerous one-upmanship, more murders occur, all described in her current work, about a boozy cop in love with a killer. Nick's psychiatrist (Jeanne Tripplehorn), and cop partner (George Dzundza) are both worried about him, and Catherine’s jealous lesbian lover (Leilani Sarelle) may be trying to kill him, but Nick is just too turned on to care.

Directed by
Paul Verhoeven

Cast
Michael Douglas - Detective Nick Curran
Sharon Stone - Catherine Tramell
George Dzundza - Gus
Jeanne Tripplehorn - Dr Beth Gardner
Denis Arndt - Lieutenant Walker
Leilani Sarelle - Roxy
Bruce A Young - Andrews
Chelcie Ross - Captain Talcott
Dorothy Malone - Hazel Dobkins
Wayne Knight - John Correli

Production Co.
Carolco
Studio Canal Plus
Basic Inst Inc

Produced by
Mario Kassar
Alan Marshall
William Beasley

Studio
Columbia Pictures

Writer
Joe Eszterhas

Music
Jerry Goldsmith