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Body Heat

Cast

William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson View All


Crew

Lawrence Kasdan (Director), Lawrence Kasdan (Writer) View All

Release: Aug. 28th, 1981
Runtime: 1 hour, 53 minutes
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
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33 The masterpiece that is Body Heat
As a big fan of noir, it really doesn't get much better than Body Heat. I've longed believed that's one of the best noirs ever, and one of the best overall movies of the 80s. The storyline, the ATM...

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PHOENIX74
Barry was the only composer who managed to be on the same page as Kasdan when discussing the film, and you can hear it clearly - that Barry 'got it' and managed to walk the line of bringing noir back into a modern context, but also staying true to what these films are.
Thief
Body Heat follows that friend, Ned Racine (William Hurt), who has just started an affair with Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner).
Gideon58
The 1981 film stars William Hurt as Ned Racine, a lawyer in a small Florida coastal town who finds himself entering a clandestine affair with a beautiful married woman named Matty Walker (Kathleen) who is dreadfully unhappy in her marriage, but because she signed a pre-nup, she doesn't want to walk ....


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