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Fatal Instinct
Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He crosses paths with seductive Lola Cain during an assignment and promptly begins an affair with her. Meanwhile, Ned's wife, Lana, is deep in an affair of her own. Lana and her lover are planning to murder Ned in an elaborate fashion so they can collect on his triple indemnity life insurance policy.
1993 · Directed by Carl Reiner · 90 min · Comedy · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 7 frames
Tagline
Sex, murder and revenge were never this funny.
Plot
Ned Ravine, who is both a police officer and lawyer (who often defends the people he arrests), believes that he knows everything about women, and says that he will throw away his badge if anyone ever proves him wrong. While on a stakeout, he encounters a seductive woman named Lola Cain; the next day, Lola shows up at his law office, saying that she needs him to look over some papers she has come across. Meanwhile, Max Shady, who was just released from prison after seven years, starts stalking Ned, planning to kill him for failing to successfully defend Max in court.
Ned's wife Lana and her car mechanic Frank, with whom she is having an affair, start plotting to kill Ned in order to collect on his accident insurance, which has a triple indemnity rider; if Ned is shot, falls from a northbound train, and drowns in a freshwater stream, Lana will collect nine million dollars.
Lola gets Ned to come to her house to examine the "papers", which are actually a laundry receipt and an expired lottery ticket, and the two of them end up having sex in various wild ways. The next morning, Ned says that they can never do that again because he loves his wife; this drives Lola to start stalking Ned.
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Crew
- Written by: David O'Malley
- Cinematography: Gabriel Beristain
- Edited by: Bud Molin, Stephen R. Myers
- Music: Richard Gibbs
- Production design: Sandy Veneziano
- Produced by: Katie Jacobs, Pierce Gardner
Cast
- Armand Assante as Ned Ravine
- Sherilyn Fenn as Laura Lincolnberry
- Kate Nelligan as Lana Ravine
- Sean Young as Lola Cain
- Christopher McDonald as Frank Kelbo
- James Remar as Max Shady
- Tony Randall as Judge Skanky
- Clarence Clemons as Clarence
- Keith Campbell as Murder Investigator
- Michael Cumpsty as Laura's Husband
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Yiddish, English
- Studios: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Budget: $10,000,000
- Box office: $7,839,327
- Themes: spoof, private detective
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