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Basic Instinct 2
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2006 film directed by Michael Caton-Jones
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Basic Instinct 2 is a 2006 English-language film directed by Michael Caton-Jones and written by Henry Bean. The movie stars Sharon Stone, David Morrissey, David Thewlis, and Charlotte Rampling. It was produced by Mario Kassar and Andrew G. Vajna through production companies including C2 Pictures, Intermedia, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The narrative is set in London, where filming also took place at Pinewood Studios.
The film is categorized as a crime, psychological, erotic, and thriller film. Jerry Goldsmith composed the score, with Norman Garwood serving as production designer. It follows the events of Basic Instinct and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Netflix via video on demand. The production involved countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, United States, and Spain.
Critical reception included review scores of 3.3, 26/100, 6%, and 4.4/10. It holds a TMDb vote average of 4.986 from 836 votes and an IMDb rating of 4.4 from 43,793 votes. The film has a runtime ranging from 111 to 116 minutes. It had a budget of 70,000,000 and generated revenue of 38,629,478.
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5.0Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass is entranced by Tramell and lured into a seductive game.
Cast
- Sharon Stone as Catherine Tramell
- David Morrissey as Michael Glass
- Charlotte Rampling as Milena Gardosh
- David Thewlis as Roy Washburn
- Stan Collymore as Kevin Franks
- Indira Varma as Denise Glass
Themes
- soho london
- jacuzzi
- erotic thriller
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Michael Caton-Jones
- Written by
- Leora Barish Henry Bean
- Based on
- Characters created, by Joe Eszterhas
- Produced by
- Mario Kassar Andrew G. Vajna Joel B. Michaels
- Starring
- Sharon Stone David Morrissey Charlotte Rampling David Thewlis
- Cinematography
- Gyula Pados
- Edited by
- John Scott István Király
- Music by
- John Murphy
- Production companies
- C2 Pictures Intermedia Kanzaman
- Distributed by
- Constantin Film Verleih (Germany) Araba Films (Spain; through United International Pictures ) Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (United States; through Sony Pictures Releasing )
- Release dates
- 30 March 2006 ( 2006-03-30 ) (Germany) 31 March 2006 ( 2006-03-31 ) (Spain, United Kingdom and United States)
- Running time
- 114 minutes
- Countries
- Germany Spain United Kingdom United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $70 million
- Box office
- $38.6 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Basic Instinct 2 (also known as Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction) is a 2006 erotic thriller film directed by Michael Caton-Jones, produced by Mario Kassar, Joel B. Michaels, and Andrew G. Vajna, and written by Leora Barish and Henry Bean. The sequel to Basic Instinct (1992), it stars Sharon Stone, who reprises her role of the crime novelist Catherine Tramell, and David Morrissey. The film was an international co-production of German, British, American, and Spanish production companies.
The film follows novelist and suspected serial killer Catherine Tramell, who is once again in trouble with the authorities, this time in London. Now Scotland Yard (Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service) appoints psychiatrist Dr. Michael Glass to evaluate her. As with SFPD Detective Nick Curran in the first film, Dr. Glass becomes a victim of Tramell's psychological manipulation.
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