There's no denying the narrative confidence that brings the film to its unfashionably certain double-whammy conclusion.
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06/24/06
Body Heat (1981)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:35
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: During one hot and sultry Florida summer, a shady lawyer launches into a torrid relationship with a lonely woman married to a rich businessman. As their relationship grows, she decides to enlist... [More]
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Mickey Rourke
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
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Reviews for Body Heat
An excellent crime drama in the style of Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Dashiell Hammett.
02/08/08
Steamy, explicit and highly-charged film noir reworked with an 1980s gloss.
02/08/08
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05/20/08
No review available.
01/23/04
The setup is classic noir that follows the rigid three-act screenplay structure that only a Hollywood newcomer could stringently abide by, and here it works
09/28/06
Suspenseful and supersexy.
11/13/06
No review available.
10/05/06
Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 noir fable is highly derivative in its overall conception, but it finds some freshness in its details.
02/08/08
Top CriticA stylish but somewhat unsatisfying copy-cat film from the film noir of the 1940s
08/31/01
One of the best directorial debuts in Hollywood history.
01/01/00
No review available.
08/13/05
Body Heart mixes sex with murder and comes up with a steamy brew of surprises.
01/31/04
Still regarded as one of the steamiest movie's of all time, Body Heat is a fantastic exponenet of how noir has developed.
02/08/08
No review available.
03/18/06
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04/30/09
Top CriticEvery aspect of Body Heat is dead-on, including the two central performances by Hurt and Turner.
02/27/01
A sexy, thrilling and smart modern classic.
11/07/02
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