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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... 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 his help in killing her husband so that the two can live comfortably off his riches. After they've successfully completed the deed, the lovers' relationship sours, and they both become principal suspects in the police investigation. [More]

Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Mickey Rourke

Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Mickey Rourke, Ted Danson

Director: Lawrence Kasdan

Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Composer: John Barry

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Nov 18, 1997

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Steamy, explicit and highly-charged film noir reworked with an 1980s gloss.

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02/08/08
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Still regarded as one of the steamiest movie's of all time, Body Heat is a fantastic exponenet of how noir has developed.

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02/08/08
Ian Nathan
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine

Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 noir fable is highly derivative in its overall conception, but it finds some freshness in its details.

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02/08/08
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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An excellent crime drama in the style of Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Dashiell Hammett.

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02/08/08
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Though Lawrence Kasdan's film is set in today's South Florida, its characters move through an atmosphere that suggests the confluences of decor and demeanor in a 1940s film noir.

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02/08/08
Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
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Suspenseful and supersexy.

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11/13/06
Chuck O'Leary
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FulvueDrive-in.com

...builds slowly, then grabs you and never lets go.

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10/20/06
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
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10/05/06
Cole Smithey
Cole Smithey
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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

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09/28/06
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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
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03/18/06
Jake Euker
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08/13/05
Emanuel Levy
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Welcome to Hollywood Mr. Kasdan.

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01/01/05
Michael A. Smith
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11/04/04
Mark R. Leeper
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Steamiest movie ever--still

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10/19/04
Steve Crum
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09/18/04
Nell Minow
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Body Heart mixes sex with murder and comes up with a steamy brew of surprises.

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01/31/04
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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01/23/04
Carol Cling
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