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01/09/04
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
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11/15/03
While Body Heat involves murder, fraud, a weak hero led astray and a seductive, double-dealing broad, it also incorporates something new: a sexual explicitness that the old films could only hint at.
05/20/03
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01/30/03
A sexy, thrilling and smart modern classic.
11/07/02
No review available.
11/04/02
Overwrought, rubbishy, unrealistic, but compelling
10/16/02
Kathleen Turner, twenty-five and not a stitch on her. There's other good stuff too, but does it really matter?
08/13/02
One of the very few "noir throwbacks" that gets everything right.
07/25/02
William Hurt makes a good sleazeball, especially with his bad mustache.
02/28/02
A stylish but somewhat unsatisfying copy-cat film from the film noir of the 1940s
08/31/01
Every aspect of Body Heat is dead-on, including the two central performances by Hurt and Turner.
02/27/01
One of the best directorial debuts in Hollywood history.
01/01/00
Body Heat is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe plot twist at the conclusion is a knockout surprise.
01/01/00
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