Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Scott Bakula, Kevin J. O'Connor, J. Trevor Edmond, Daniel von Bargen, Joseph LatimoreDirected By: Clive Barker
It seemed like a pretty good career move, and for the most part it was. Demi Moore will never top any rational list of great actresses, but as her career stalled in the mid-1990s she had enough internal fire and external physicality to be just right for her title role in G.I. Jane. Her character's name isn't Jane--it's Jordan O'Neil--but the fact that she lacks a penis makes her an ...
Manufacturer: 4 Front VideoStarring: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, Daniel von BargenDirected By: Ridley Scott
When John Travolta first opens his mouth during the opening credits of The General's Daughter and speaks in a terrible Southern cracker drawl, one briefly hopes the movie will turn out to be just as hilariously bad. Unfortunately, the accent is soon revealed to be part of a disguise, and the movie is just as quickly unveiled as a clumsy, run-of-the-mill potboiler, too mediocre to be truly ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: John Travolta, Madeleine Stowe, James Cromwell, Timothy Hutton, Leslie StefansonDirected By: Simon West
Falling from the Oscar-winning glory of Dances with Wolves to the opposite end of the critical and box-office scale, Kevin Costner must have been deeply humbled when this three-hour postapocalyptic tale--his sophomore effort as a director--was greeted with a critical thrashing and tepid audience response. One of the most conspicuous flops of its decade, the 1997 release must have seemed ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams, James RussoDirected By: Kevin Costner
The take-no-prisoners sex thriller from 1992 now stands as a milestone in the career of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, but in the hands of director Paul Verhoeven Basic Instinct is an undeniably stylish and provocative study of obsession. In the role that made her a star (and showed the audience a little more skin than she intended), Sharon Stone plays the cleverly manipulative novelist ...
Manufacturer: 4 Front VideoStarring: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis ArndtDirected By: Paul Verhoeven
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Burt Reynolds, Jason BegheDirected By: Andrew Bergman, Ridley Scott
Starring: Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen, Anne Bancroft, Jason Beghe, Daniel von BargenDirected By: Ridley Scott
With more than a decade of cinema in Basic Instinct's wake it's fascinating to look back at just how influential Paul Verhoeven's "erotic thriller" has been. The director's endless fight with censorship and unwillingness to kowtow to social mores meant his movies became notorious for graphically depicting sex and violence while pushing contemporary boundaries of taste. This whodunit about a ...
