Nick Curran

Detective Nick Curranis the main hero of Basic Instinct's 1992 movie.

He was portrayed by Michael Douglas.

Curran is a detective in San Fransicso, California charged to investigate the murder of a retired rocker star, Johnny Boz, killed with an ice pick. The only suspect seems to be the victim's girlfriend, Catherine Tramell, a beautiful and wealthy writer, who released a murder mystery book titled Love Hurts, who descrbied in detail the murder that actually took place. The detectives decide with the help of a criminal psychialist that the murderer is most likely either the person who wroter the book, or someone who intends to frame the writer by acting out with "ritualistic intent", the crime described. At the same time Curran finds himself attracted with Catherine and begins an affair with the manipulative femme fatale. He also discovers everyone around Catherine dies, (including her parents)