Basic Instinct

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There was some question as to whether Catherine Trammell should kill women as well as men, but Paul [...]	D
George Dzundza and Daniel von Bargen were also in Allarme rosso (1995).	D
(At around 41 minutes) When Nick is tailing Catherine on California Highway 1 (Pacific Coast Highway [...]	D
Paul Verhoeven was so intent on making the sex scenes as explicitly as the censors would allow that [...]	D
Sharon Stone wasn't a big name and didn't read for the part, fearing she'd be disappointed. When she [...]	D
Gay rights activists were so against the way the gay characters were portrayed that they blocked the [...]	D
(At around 1:01) After talking with Beth, Nick comments to Lt. Walker, "She killed him." Misundersta [...]	D
Final film of Dorothy Malone.	D
Farrah Fawcett was offered the main role but turned it down because of the sex and nudity.	D
Michael Douglas said in interviews that he wanted to star in the movie because he felt sex scenes we [...]	D
When it was first released the film confused many audience members, who had wildly different impress [...]	D
Paul Verhoeven shot copious amounts of footage of the sex scene between Michael Douglas and Sharon S [...]	D
Sharon Stone was nervous filming the first sex scene with Bill Cable.	D
Sharon Stone was director Paul Verhoeven's choice, but was only offered the role of Catherine after [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2001 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 Most [...]	D
RenÃ©e Soutendijk and Amanda Donohoe were considered for the role of Catherine Tramell. Soutendijk [...]	D
Michael Douglas felt an established star was needed to play Catherine, so the movie would be carried [...]	D
According to Paul Verhoeven, the woman in the opening scene was Sharon Stone, and not a body double. [...]	D
In 2002, Joe Eszterhas apologized in an op-ed for The New York Times for glamorizing smoking in this [...]	D
Sharon Stone later said she had no idea they were going to show her vagina in that infamous scene. " [...]	D
In her 2021 memoir "The Beauty of Living Twice," Sharon Stone said she didn't want to remove her pan [...]	D
As Nick, Gus and Catherine travel to the interrogation, a beam of bright sunlight lands on Catherine [...]	D
This was the seventh time that cinematographer Jan De Bont collaborated with Paul Verhoeven, most of [...]	D
An extract from Time Out criticises and praises the film as follows, "Yet the film's depiction of nu [...]	D
Michael Douglas reportedly wasn't happy with Joe Eszterhas's script and left for Europe during filmi [...]	D
In the climax, the ice pick is seen underneath Nick's bed with Catherine possibly reaching for it, i [...]	D
Michael Douglas and James Rebhorn, who played Dr. McElwaine in this film, would go on to share more [...]	D
This made Sharon Stone an overnight star after twelve years in the business and thirty acting credit [...]	D
Final film of Bill Cable.	D
After talking with Beth, Nick comments to Gus, "She killed him." Misunderstanding, Gus declares: "Be [...]	D
There was considerable controversy regarding the sex scene between Nick and Beth. Some critics regar [...]	D
While appearing on Inside the Actors Studio (1994), Sharon Stone claimed that she had no idea that P [...]	D
Beth's car is a 1991 Acura Integra (DA9).	D
For her role as a femme fatale-type character, Sharon Stone referenced Barbara Stanwyck in La fiamma [...]	D
Catherine's car is a 1991 Lotus Esprit SE (Type 85).	D
Paul Verhoeven was originally slated to direct Michael Douglas in Black Rain - Pioggia sporca (1989) [...]	D
One of two movies where Michael Douglas plays a cop named Nick who has a partner that gets killed. I [...]	D
Michael Douglas wore lifts in the film.	D
In a 2014 webisode of the YouTube channel Trailers from Hell, filmmaker Dan Ireland claimed that he [...]	D
Joe Eszterhas and producer Irwin Winkler walked off the picture after failing to reach agreement wit [...]	D
As with RoboCop (1987), Paul Verhoeven talked to Tom Berenger about playing Nick Curran, but Berenge [...]	D
Paul Verhoeven previously directed Miguel Ferrer in RoboCop (1987). Leilani Sarelle (Roxy) was marri [...]	D
One of the locations for Sharon Stone's ocean-front home was filmed at 157 Spindrift Rd, Carmel High [...]	D
So choreographed were the sex scenes that Sharon Stone referred to herself and Michael Douglas as "t [...]	D
DNA evidence would have proven Catherine (Sharon Stone) was with Johnny Boz (Bill Cable) when he was [...]	D
Sharon Stone (Catherine Tramell) was the only cast member to return for Basic Instinct 2 (2006).	D
Sharon Stone played the interrogation scene as if she were playing a game. Instead of allowing male [...]	D
The Johnny Boz Club was a set built inside Warner Brothers Studios.	D
Brooke Shields, famous for her breakthrough racy childhood role in 1978's Pretty Baby, which feature [...]	D
Michael Douglas was initially against Sharon Stone being cast as she was largely unknown, but Paul V [...]	D
There has been some confusion as to whether or not Sharon Stone knew her exposed vagina was being fi [...]	D
Michael Douglas (a former race-car driver) did most of his own stunt driving in the film.	D
Paul Verhoeven was on record when he first signed to do the film as saying that he wanted to make it [...]	D
When the film was released Michael Douglas described his character Nick Curran as evil in interviews [...]	D
Some critics ridiculed the idea of Michael Douglas being irresistible to bisexual woman, although it [...]	D
In the original theatrical version, when the police are questioning her at the precinct, has Catheri [...]	D
Sharon Stone was seriously considering giving up acting to study law at the time she was offered the [...]	D
The film cast includes two Oscar winners: Michael Douglas and Dorothy Malone; and one Oscar nominee: [...]	D
Catherine's last name comes from Alan Trammell, the longtime star shortstop for the Detroit Tigers. [...]	D
Paul Verhoeven briefly considered Peter Weller for the role of Nick Curran, having worked with him o [...]	D
Nick Curran is based on an adrenaline-junkie Cleveland police officer Joe Eszterhas knew when he was [...]	D
To get an R-rating, Paul Verhoeven had to re-cut the movie a total of fourteen times. The four scene [...]	D
11431 Euclid Avenue, the address on Lisa Hoberman's 1984 driver license, is a real address in Clevel [...]	D
Sharon Stone, when doing the interview circuit, was really annoyed by the fact that everyone always [...]	D
It was suggested Nick and Catherine should have met up at a private party, as they were both too old [...]	D
Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone had to wear genital pads during the sex scenes, due to the AIDS epi [...]	D
(At around 53 minutes) When Beth comes into Nick's apartment, the opening theme song from I Jefferso [...]	D
Linda Fiorentino was considered to play Beth. She would later play a major part in another erotic th [...]	D
In an interview, Jennifer Tilly, who was not in this film, defended actresses who chose to do nude s [...]	D
Michael Douglas declined to go full frontal in the film, or to let his character be bisexual.	D
Opening film at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival.	D
The film shares many similarities to Fatal Attraction (1987). Both are erotic thrillers starring Mic [...]	D
Michael Douglas and Paul Verhoeven both approached the film as if it were a detective novel. Verhoev [...]	D
Joe Eszterhas based Catherine Tramell on a go go dancer he knew in Ohio. One night he picked up the [...]	D
In Xena: Principessa guerriera: The Ides of March (1999), the scene in which Julius Caesar (Karl Urb [...]	D
Kirk Douglas, then aged 75, attended the premiere and praised his son's "bravery" in making the movi [...]	D
The role of Nick Curran was originally a lesbian cop, and was written with Kathleen Turner in mind.	D
After the film's release, someone called Sharon Stone's mother and asked her how she would feel abou [...]	D
(at around 4 mins) The opening scene where Johnny Boz (Bill Cable) is stabbed through the nose was d [...]	D
Contains five actors that have been on "Seinfeld" (Wayne Knight, Daniel von Bargen, Stephen Tobolows [...]	D
The apartment complex where Detective Nick Curran lives is located at 1158-1170 Montgomery Street at [...]	D
Erotic thriller actress Delia Sheppard said she auditioned and was being considered for the lead rol [...]	D
In the opening scene, although her face is obscured by her hair for most of the scene, you can still [...]	D
Joe Eszterhas later admitted that not mentioning the DNA was a major plot hole in his screenplay.	D
The character of Nick was originally supposed to be a young man, but after Michael Douglas was cast, [...]	D
Joe Eszterhas was paid a then-unheard-of sum of $3 million for his script.	D
Michael Douglas also played a San Francisco police inspector and detective in Le strade di San Franc [...]	D
In an interview with Playboy, Sharon Stone revealed that she didn't feel comfortable around Michael [...]	D
Michael Douglas' character has a very similar name to his character in Black Rain - Pioggia sporca ( [...]	D
This was Number 1 on the British Channel Sky Movies Plus (now Sky Cinema) UK Top 10 in 1992.	D
Michael Douglas felt the criticism he received at the time of the film's release was unfair, as he d [...]	D
Michael Douglas, who was in his late forties, was widely regarded as being too old for this film.	D
Film debut of Jeanne Tripplehorn.	D
Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone went on to star in films directed by Barry Levinson,Rivelazioni (19 [...]	D
Nick's handgun is a 9x19mm 2nd Generation Glock 17.	D
Richard Dean Anderson, Tom Berenger, Jeff Bridges, Nicolas Cage, Kevin Costner, Tom Cruise, Robert D [...]	D
Director Danny Wolf and executive producer Jim McBride (best known as Mr. Skin), makers of the docum [...]	D
This was Paul Verhoeven's first and only film shot in anamorphic Panavision, and second overall anam [...]	D
(at around 36 mins) The scene where Michael Douglas has sex with Jeanne Tripplehorn was filmed unbek [...]	D
Before the climax of the movie, Nick drops in at Catherine's house and picks up a page of the manusc [...]	D
A clip that was cut from the first sex scene between Nick and Catherine, in which Catherine removes [...]	D
Tom Guiry's older brother snuck the main cast into a screening of this film after they were done fil [...]	D
Nick's police car is a 1986 Dodge. Nick's personal car is a 1990 Ford Mustang GT convertible.	D
Take a good look at the two ice picks used to kill people at the beginning of the film and toward th [...]	D
Sharon Stone has claimed in several interviews over the years that Paul Verhoeven asked her to remov [...]	D
Joe Eszterhas wrote the script in ten days in the 1980s while listening to The Rolling Stones non-st [...]	D
Jeanne Tripplehorn maintains that the notorious, uniquely primal grunt scene in which her character [...]	D
Nick's sagging buttocks provoked laughter from cinema audiences.	D
Sharon Stone said on the Drew Barrymore Show in October 2020 that she posed nude for the July 1990 i [...]	D
(at around 27 mins) According to a poll for movie subscription service LoveFilm, Sharon Stone's infa [...]	D
The film made Sharon Stone a star at an age where most actresses' careers are slowing down.	D
Milos Forman was the first choice of Joe Eszterhas and Irwin Winkler to direct. He read the script w [...]	D
This movie, along with RoboCop (1987), Starship Troopers - Fanteria dello spazio (1997), and L'uomo [...]	D
Paul Verhoeven offered the role to Sharon Stone mainly because he admired her acting in Atto di forz [...]	D
Upon seeing the film, Steven Spielberg noticed Wayne Knight and immediately wanted him to play Denni [...]	D
The Keychain that Dr. Garner throws down at 54:23 is a Bart Simpson Keychain.	D
(at around 27 mins) Sharon Stone's infamous leg-uncrossing scene was not in Joe Eszterhas' original [...]	D
Four of the crew are European; Paul Verhoeven was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jan De Bont wa [...]	D
One of the main points of disagreement between Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas concerned Verhoeven' [...]	D
During an interview with RuPaul and Michelle Visage, Cassandra Peterson (famous for playing Elvira, [...]	D
The movie completely ignored DNA, which had been used in criminal investigations since the mid-1980s [...]	D
The disco scene was felt by many to be inappropriate, given Michael Douglas was approximately twice [...]	D
(at around 1h 45 mins) A moment that gave further evidence to support that Sharon Stone's character [...]	D
The San Francisco Police Department had to deploy fifty riot police at every location every day to d [...]	D
Michael Douglas had a clause in his contract that forbade him from appearing in any full-frontal nud [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2002 list of 400 movies nominated for the top 100 top 1 [...]	D
Paul Verhoeven had some disagreements with Michael Douglas over his direction of Sharon Stone. Stone [...]	D
No body doubles were used in any of the sex scenes.	D
Joe Eszterhas conceived the screenplay in part because Shane Black replaced him as the highest paid [...]	D
Faye Dunaway openly criticized Michael Douglas for not letting Sharon Stone have above-the-title bil [...]	D
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) initially gave this movie an NC-17 rating. The NC-1 [...]	D
According to the original screenplay, the character of Gus (George Dzundza) was supposed to be sixty [...]	D
Later followed by a sequel, Basic Instinct 2 (2006), which flopped at the box office. Michael Dougla [...]	D

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