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Body Heat (1981)

August. 28,1981
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7.4
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R
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In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

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BlazeLime
1981/08/28

Strong and Moving!

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AnhartLinkin
1981/08/29

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

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Rosie Searle
1981/08/30

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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Deanna
1981/08/31

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

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Peter Zullmmann
1981/09/01

This is one of those movies that fell though the cracks. I couldn't find it ever on a big screen, retrospectives you know. I refused to see it on TV for the first time. Sunday night, finally, I saw it in a huge plasma screen. Wow! I can immediately tell why people consider it a remake of Double Indemnity but unlike Gus Van Sant who remade Psycho shot by shot and casts Vince Vaugh as Norman Bates in a massive piece of miscalculation, or Jonathan Demme who remade Charade as The Trouble With Charlie and casts Mark Whalberg in the Cary Grant role, Mark Whalberg! In "Body Heat" Lawrence Kasdan casts William Hurt in the Fred Mac Murray part of the insurance salesman falling into the trap, body and soul. William Hurt's phenomenal performance reinventing the character makes "Body Heat" unique and without precedent. The power of Kathleen Turner - bursting into the film scene with a bang! - it's a masterpiece of characterization. She's way ahead of William Hurt. "You're not very intelligent, are you? I like that in a man" Superb.

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Predrag
1981/09/02

This is a sexy thriller not to be missed. If you like a plot with twists and turns and an unexpected ending, you'll love "Body Heat". It's literate, suspenseful, well-acted, beautiful photographed, reasonably believable, and very, very sexy. The script is superb, the performance of William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Mickey Rourke (it was Turner's and Rourke's debut) are exceptional, and the plot is just a dream come true. This movie is an excellent example of film noir; however, since it was released thirty years after that genre's heyday, some critics originally dismissed it as a "Double Indemnity" knockoff. Indeed, it does closely resemble that Billy Wilder classic, and, as Roger Ebert noted, it's hard to make a modern film noir.Body Heat is amazing in that it manages to keep the beloved elements of the genre and make them seem fresh and new, while adding a different visual style and of course putting the passion between the leads front and center in a way never before possible. The writing is amazing for both structure and dialogue. Turner and Hurt are in their early thirties and at the height of their considerable good looks. Ted Danson brings both lightness and a somber sadness to his role as the best friend and all of the supporting cast are amazing. The sexuality was definitely groundbreaking for the time. If you haven't yet seen this movie, do yourself a favor and buy it or stream it as soon as possible. It really does belong on those lists of top movies for its brilliance and is entertaining besides.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

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KineticSeoul
1981/09/03

When it comes to these femme fatale type of movies, the formula has become very familiar now. However when this film first came out, it was pretty cleverly executed. I think this is one of the films that inspired the creation of other seductive woman type characters in films that know what they want and know how to play the game. The the story takes place during the summer in Florida when it's going through a heatwave. A woman temps a lawyer with her sexiness and manipulates him to kill her rich husband. So they can take off with his money by legally taking it all by using the legal system. From there are the choices the characters make really start to bite them in the butt. While you as an audience is trying to figure out exactly what is going on and what the main plan that is being utilized is. This is a film for adults and I don't mean that because of the sexual content. But because this is a slow burn movie that will bore most teenagers. Overall, I have seen these types of movies before so the ending was quite predictable for me. But I appreciate it for what it accomplished and brought forth at that time. Plus another femme fatale film came out a year later called "Basic Instinct". Which will be a bigger hit because of Sharon Stone and because of a certain scene with her in it.7.6/10

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Tom Robertson
1981/09/04

johnnyaction80, I don't agree that Matty was necessarily pining for Ned at the end. She didn't seem very happy, but it was never clear that she wasn't just acting when she was with him. If the movie was trying to show her as regretting her choice for money over him, I think it should have been more explicit. Maybe it could have shown her as treating her new man differently.If Lawrence Kasdan accounted for the difference between "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," I like him.Nimbo, I read either on this site or Wikipedia that he said "it's very hot" in Portuguese, suggesting they were in Brazil.

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