Basic Instinct
Total Verhoeven
November 9 - 23, 2016
Verhoeven’s sleek, sexually daring thriller is Vertigo for the 1990s, with Michael Douglas as the troubled police detective seduced into a series of cat-and-mouse mind games by Sharon Stone’s Hitchcock-blonde crime novelist.
Verhoeven’s sleek, sexually daring thriller is Vertigo for the 1990s. Michael Douglas is the troubled police detective seduced into a series of cat-and-mouse mind games by Sharon Stone’s Catherine Tramell, a cool, Hitchcock-blonde crime novelist with a penchant for sleeping with murderers and who may or may not be one herself. Throughout, Verhoeven revels in the story’s ambiguity, creating a world in which sex is both unbelievably hot and charged with menace, and nearly everyone is guilty of something. Even the ending is a tease.
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