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| Genre: | Thriller |
| Year: | 1981 |
| Rating: | R |
| Length: | 1 Hour 53 Minutes |
| Cast: | Lawrence Kasdan, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna |
Lawrence Kasdan's first directorial effort is a marvelous throwback to the glory days of film noir. The scene is a beastly hot Florida coastal town, where naive attorney Ned (William Hurt) is entranced by the alluring Matty (Kathleen Turner in her film debut). Ned is manipulated into killing Matty's much older husband (Richard Crenna), the plan being that Ned's knowledge of legal matters will enable both conspirators to escape scott-free. This might have been the case, had not Matty been infinitely craftier than the cloddish Ned. Just when it seems as though the film has run out of plot twists, we're handed a fade-out surprise that's a knockout. Body Heat starts like a deliberate parody of the Robert Mitchum/Jane Greer films of the 1940s, then takes on a life of its own and hooks us as effectively as Ned has been snared by Matty. Hal Erickson
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