Fresh
Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 noir fable is highly derivative in its overall conception, but it finds some freshness in its details.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Body Heat
As the temperature rises, the suspense begins.
1981 · 1h 53m · R
Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Lawrence Kasdan
Overview
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
Director and cast
- Lawrence Kasdan Director
- William Hurt as Ned Racine
- Kathleen Turner as Matty Walker
- Richard Crenna as Edmund Walker
- Ted Danson as Peter Lowenstein
- J. A. Preston as Oscar Grace
- J.A. Preston as Oscar Grace
- Mickey Rourke as Teddy Lewis
- Kim Zimmer as Mary Ann
- Jane Hallaren as Stella
- Lanna Saunders as Roz Kraft
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
Fresh
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.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
Body Heat is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
There's no denying the narrative confidence that brings the film to its unfashionably certain double-whammy conclusion.
Time Out
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