A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husbands death.
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The San Francisco Police Department had to deploy fifty riot police at every location every day to deal with picketing gay and lesbian activists.
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No body doubles were used in any of the sex scenes.
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Sharon Stone was nervous filming the first sex scene with Bill Cable.
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Leilani Sarelle was married at the time of the film's release to Miguel Ferrer, who had appeared in Paul Verhoeven's earlier film RoboCop (1987).
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The movie completely ignored DNA, which had been used in criminal investigations since the mid-1980s. The film was set in the year of its release (1992), by which time DNA was constantly being used for crime investigations.
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To get an R-rating, Paul Verhoeven had to re-cut the movie a total of fourteen times. The four scenes demanding the heaviest re-cuts were the murder of Johnny Boz, the "date rape" of Elizabeth Garner, the sex scene between Nick and Catherine, and the death of Gus.
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Michael Douglas' character has the same first name ("Nick") as his character in Black Rain (1989), in which he also portrayed a cop. Douglas' character in Black Rain (1989) is Detective Nick Conklin, while his character in this film is Detective Nick Curran.
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Joe Eszterhas later admitted that not mentioning the DNA was a major plot hole in his screenplay.
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) initially gave this movie an NC-17 rating. The NC-17 was established in 1990 to replace the X rating, due to the latter rating's association with pornography. According to Paul Verhoeven, the MPAA tried to encourage TriStar Pictures to not make edits for an R-rating, as they wanted a major film to prove to the American public that the NC-17 rating did not signify pornography. However, TriStar's contract with Verhoeven stipulated an R-rated film; thus forty-five seconds were removed to fulfill these obligations. The NC-17 version was released theatrically overseas, and is available on video in America.
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Paul Verhoeven shot copious amounts of footage of the sex scene between Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone. Expecting that the MPAA would have problems with the explicit nature of the scene, he shot alternate close-ups, medium shots and wide shots of virtually every shot over five days. This gave him the freedom to edit the scene until the MPAA was satisfied, and no longer demanded that the scene was deleted altogether.
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Michael Douglas co-starred with Sharon Stone in this film. Robert De Niro co-starred with Stone in Casino (1995). Douglas and De Niro co-starred in Last Vegas (2013). Both latter films are set in Las Vegas.
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Milos Forman was the first choice of Joe Eszterhas and Irwin Winkler to direct. He read the script while on vacation, and agreed to make the movie, but it turned out that Paul Verhoeven had already been hired by then.
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Patrick Swayze, Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford were considered for the role of Nick Curran.
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Nicks car is a, 1986 Dodge Diplomat.
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Cinematographer Jan De Bont collaborated with Paul Verhoeven on films made in their native Netherlands. This was their final collaboration after their first Hollywood outing, Flesh+Blood (1985).
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