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Basic Instinct 2

Basic Instinct 2

2006 film by Michael Caton-Jones

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  • 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.
  • Vajna, and written by Leora Barish and Henry Bean.
  • The film was an international co-production of German, British, American, and Spanish production companies.
  • Now Scotland Yard (Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service) appoints psychiatrist Dr.
  • As with SFPD Detective Nick Curran in the first film, Dr.

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.

After being in development limbo for several years, the sequel film was shot in London from April to August 2005, and was released on 31 March 2006. It received negative reviews and underperformed at the box office.

Plot

In London, American best-selling author Catherine Tramell is driving with her companion, famous English football star Kevin Franks. Tramell takes Franks's hand and begins masturbating herself with it as she accelerates the car, but the semi-unconscious Franks appears unaware of what is happening. At the point of orgasm, Tramell veers off the road and crashes into the West India Docks on the Thames. She attempts to save Franks but is unable to undo the seatbelt. When questioned later by the police, she says, "When it came down to it, I guess my life was more important to me than his".

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