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While scoring high-profile credits as a screenwriter (including The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, and Raiders of the Lost Ark), Lawrence Kasdan made his directorial debut with this steamy, contemporary film noir in the tradition of Double Indemnity and other classics from the 1940s. In one of his most memorable roles, William Hurt plays a Florida lawyer unwittingly drawn into a web of deceit spun by Kathleen Turner (in her screen debut) as a married socialite who plots to kill off her husband with Hurt's assistance. Kasdan's dialogue is a hoot (sometimes it borders on satire), and the sultry atmosphere is a perfect complement to the perspiration-soaked chemistry between Hurt and Turner, whose love scenes caused quite a stir when the film was released in 1981. John Barry's score sets the provocative mood, and both Ted Danson and Mickey Rourke are splendid in memorable supporting roles. --Jeff Shannon
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Almost porn , but everybody keeps their clothes on Sparks fly. An old movie that my wife and I first watched 30 years ago. It was fun to see it again. I got up to rewind the movie lol
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Body heat meant the reinassance of the film noir in the eighties. Kasdan made his best picture to date. He's a very intelligemt film maker ; and employed the craft of one of the two greatest sex symbols of the eighties the talented and beauty Kathleen Turner who altogether with Theresa Russell completed the sexy duo.
Turner made reached the peak of the perfection the role of femme fatale ; the spider woman , who cleverly makes her web , waiting for a private eye who falls in love with her.
Turner made reached the peak of the perfection the role of femme fatale ; the spider woman , who cleverly makes her web , waiting for a private eye who falls in love with her.
She's married and as you well suppose is very unhappy with her husband (Richard Crenna) ; the plot is superbly built from start to finnish ; the locations the heat we can feel it even outside the screen . The art direction ; the sliding camera and the enlightment are first rate. Search for Mickey Rourke in a cameo.
If you ask me about the best film noir of this decade ; this would head the list ; the others would be in order of importance : The postman rings always twice , Blood simple , Bad timing and the Black widow.
A must in your collection!
By M. Chlanda
Format:VHS Tape
This movie, which follows the relationship between a lawyer (William Hurt) and a sultry woman (Kathleen Turner) provides a stylish mix, of sex, mystery, and relationships. With excellent performances throughout; and a very hot (at that time) Ms. Turner, it's a fairly good movie. Nice "jazzy" soundtrack, with the exception of one Bob Seger song (also cool). Kathleen Turner is one cool lady, as she seeks to knock off her husband (Richard Crenna), and later; when she gets greedy, her lover (Mr. Hurt). The sex was fairly steamy, given that it was an "R" movie, and she can convey more eroticism; with her facial expressions than some women could with their entire (nude) bodies. And speaking of bodies, while Ms. Turner isn't the most (physically) endowed woman, she does manage to use what she has to advantage. Sex aside, some interesting supporting performance by Ted Danson and Mickey Rourke too. Worth a look.
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Beware!
Don't get me wrong because I love this movie but I got it with a few extras that I didn't expect. First I thought it was a little tacky that there was a price tag on the DVD that... Read more
Published on May 23 2004 by jwall
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A Steamy Film Noir
Ned Racine (William Hurt) is a Florida lawyer (apparently not a very good one) who meets Matty Walker, (Kathleen Turner) the sexy, beautiful wife of a rich husband she wants... Read more
Published on May 1 2004 by H. F. Corbin
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about the movie body heat.......
This story is basically about muder case in the ned where the body of the murdered person is being burnt by arson(need to know more can easily make your purchase here... Read more
Published on Jan 27 2004 by Ang Poon Kah
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This classic example of film noir is the one. Lawrence Kasdan scored big in this one, his directorial debut. Read more
Published on Dec 9 2003 by Peggy Vincent
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RIVETING MURDER/ROMANCE/MYSTERY YARN
A noirish mystery from the time when William Hurt was an icon of you-know-what, and soon after, Kate Turner was too? Read more
Published on Nov 23 2003 by Shashank Tripathi
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's getting hot in here.
Ned (William Hurt) is a second rate lawyer and a fisrt rate womanizer. One night he runs into Mattie Walker (Katheen Turner) and they begin a red hot affair. Read more
Published on Nov 3 2003 by Vagabond77
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Greatest of All Film Noirs
The "total package" in "Body Heat" makes it the best film noir ever made. No other movie, even the great film noirs like "Double Indemnity" or... Read more
Published on Oct 11 2003 by Joseph McNulty
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Original uncensored version is much better.
I saw the original release in a theater in 1981, and I am dissapointed in the current "R" release. It has been censored to make it sellable in family video stores like... Read more
Published on Aug 25 2003 by David MacQuigg
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More than sparks fly in this classic 80s film noir
Ned Racine (William Hurt) is an attorney who meets unhappily married sex siren Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) in a bar (as happens in all good film noirs). Read more
Published on July 3 2003 by BD Ashley
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MURDER MY SWEAT...
Extremely well written, BODY HEAT is the first movie of Lawrence Kasdan who also wrote the screenplay of RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK in the early eighties. Read more
Published on Jun 17 2003 by Daniel S.
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