Basic Instinct

France and United States of America, 1992

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A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.

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Credits

director

Paul Verhoeven

costume design

Ellen Mirojnick

producer

Alan Marshall

production company

Carolco Pictures

StudioCanal

TriStar Pictures

production design

Terence Marsh

screenplay

Joe Eszterhas

visual effects

Al Magliochetti

Duration

02:07:00

Production dates
1992

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-402

Language

English

Subject categories

Mystery

Thriller

TMDB-Movie

402

Wikidata

Q146673

Collected

63 times

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