Prestige Sleaze: Basic Instinct
June 15 - 26, 2024
A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
Related Event
"Michael Douglas Likes to Watch" Night
Make it a double feature on June 15 with two steamy Michael Douglas performances, with Fatal Attractionat 5:00pm and at 7:45pm, a 20-minute drag show by Camp Napalm before the screening of Basic Instinct.
In one of Verhoeven's most provacative films, Detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) becomes ensnared in a web of sex, lies, and violence, all leading back to Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a seductive, mysterious crime novelist. As the bodies pile up and hidden obsessions are revealed, Curran begins to doubt his investigatory instincts and give in to his baser ones.
- Director: Paul Verhoeven
- Principal Cast: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza
- Country: USA
- Year: 1992
- Running Time: 127 min.
- Producer: Alan Marshall
- Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas
- Cinematographers: Jan de Bont
- Music: Jerry Goldsmith
- Filmography: Total Recall (1990) Showgirls (1995) Starship Troopers (1997)
- Language: English
- US Distributor: Rialto Pictures
