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6:40pm • Wednesday, Jul 29, 2026
Basic Instinct
In one of Paul Verhoeven's most provocative 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.
Best Film Editing and Best Music, Original Score nominations (Academy Awards, 1993)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama and Best Original Score nominations (Golden Globes, 1993)
""Basic Instinct' transfers Mr. Verhoeven's flair for action-oriented material to the realm of
Hitchcockian intrigue...VISCERALLY EFFECTIVE." (The New York Times)
"Ruthless craftsmanship is Paul Verhoeven’s highest form of politics." (Slant Magazine)
"Sharon Stone, in her first major-league role, comes on like a postfeminist Grace Kelly. She turns her haughty, slightly blank, cheerleader sexiness into something vampish and ominous -- an all-American beauty mask." (Entertainment Weekly)
"Despite (or maybe because of) his obligatory nods to Hitchcock, this is slick and entertaining enough to work as thriller porn, even with two contradictory denouements to its mystery." (Chicago Reader)
"Verhoeven's cinematic wet dream delivers the goods, especially when Sharon Stone struts on with enough come-on carnality to singe the screen." (Rolling Stone)
Wednesday, July 29
Doors 6:10 pm | Movie 6:40 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
BASIC INSTINCT (Paul Verhoeven, 1992 / 127 mins / 18A) A violent police detective investigates a brutal murder that might involve a manipulative and seductive novelist.
