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Body Heat

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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

US Box Office: $0

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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04/30/09
James Berardinelli
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Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
05/20/08
Variety
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Steamy, explicit and highly-charged film noir reworked with an 1980s gloss.

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02/08/08
Channel 4 Film
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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.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
02/08/08
Ian Nathan
Ian Nathan
Empire Magazine
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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

An excellent crime drama in the style of Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, and Dashiell Hammett.

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02/08/08
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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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.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
02/08/08
Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine

Suspenseful and supersexy.

Full Review Source: FulvueDrive-in.com | comment Comment
11/13/06
Chuck O'Leary
Chuck O'Leary
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
DVDTown.com

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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
Mark R. Leeper
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Steamiest movie ever--still

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10/19/04
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Kansas City Kansan

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09/18/04
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies

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
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal
 
 
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