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Basic Instinct 2
MEANRANK
36/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5847
- IMDb #5766
- Rotten Tomatoes #5102
- Metacritic #5065
- Letterboxd #5720
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5516
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5033
- Metacritic Critics #4882
- Metacritic Audience #5028
- Criticker #4231
- Kinopoisk #5398
- AlloCiné #5626
- Trakt #5138
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 6, highest is Google on 64. Critics average 16, everyone else 41.
See the most agreed on films →A dangerously seductive and manipulative novelist becomes the subject of a police investigation in London after another of her lovers dies. A brilliant but troubled criminal psychologist is assigned to profile her, leading to a risky and obsessive game of psychological cat and mouse.
Details
- Director
- Michael Caton-Jones
- Writers
- Henry Bean, Leora Barish
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, C2 Pictures, IMF Internationale Medien und Film 3 & Produktions, KanZaman Productions
- Released
- 29 March 2006
- Country
- Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $70.0M
- Box office
- $38.6M
- Awards
- 8 wins, 6 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 14 →8 wins from 14 nominations across 6 ceremonies
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2006 | Hall of Shame | Winner | |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Picture | Winner | |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Director | Michael Caton-Jones | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Actress | Sharon Stone | Winner |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Supporting Actor | David Thewlis (also for The Omen ) | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Screenplay | Leora Barish and Henry Bean ; Based on characters created by Joe Eszterhas | Winner |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Screen Couple | Sharon Stone's lopsided breasts | Nominee |
| Golden Raspberry Awards 2006 | Worst Prequel or Sequel | Winner |
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14 awards — Basic Instinct 2
×| Worst Actress | Sharon Stone | Winner |
| Worst Picture | Winner | |
| Worst Prequel or Sequel | Winner | |
| Worst Screenplay | Leora Barish and Henry Bean ; Based on characters created by Joe Eszterhas | Winner |
| Worst Director | Michael Caton-Jones | Nominee |
| Worst Screen Couple | Sharon Stone's lopsided breasts | Nominee |
| Worst Supporting Actor | David Thewlis (also for The Omen ) | Nominee |
| Hall of Shame | Winner |
| Obviously Worst Film | Winner |
| Hall of Shame | Winner |
| Worst Foreign Actress | Sharon Stone | Winner |
| Worst Actress | Sharon Stone | Nominee |
| Worst Picture | Nominee | |
| Worst Sequel | Nominee |