Elsie Sniffen

Basic Instinct -- Michael Douglas stars as Detective Nick Curran who finds himself drawn to a prime suspect in a murder case, sexy novelist Catherine Tramell, whose boyfriend was murdered the same way she decribes in her latest novel.

A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.

San Francisco detective Nick Curran is investigating the murder of a once-celebrated rock star and he's made a few unsettling discoveries: a bloody ice pick, a white silk scarf tied to a bedpost and evidence of an otherwise romantic evening. As Nick digs into the case, he becomes entangled in a deadly affair involving three intriguing women, each with an unexpected motive for crime. Catherine Tramell is a fast-living novelist who's fictional murders have a strange way of coming true. Roxy is Catherine's street-wise provocative girlfriend. Dr. Beth Garner is a police psychologist counseling Nick...