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Body Heat

1981

Lawrence Kasdan

William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson ...

7.1

16,225

Film noir. Mystery In this humid, atmospheric film noir, a sweltering summer in south Florida sets the stage for a dark romance between attorney Ned Racine (William Hurt) and sexy Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) as they plot to kill her wealthy husband (Richard Crenna).

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'Body Heat' is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"The steamiest, most thoroughly satisfying melodrama about love, lust and greed to be seen since Billy Wilder's 'Double Indemnity"	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"An engrossing, mightily stylish meller in which sex and crime walk hand in hand down the path to tragedy"	POS
United States	Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"An intimate, spellbinding genre film"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Still regarded as one of the steamiest movie's of all time, Body Heat is a fantastic exponenet of how noir has developed (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"What's most impressive about Kasdan's achievement is that he takes the mystery-thrillers of the '40s and '50s and gives them a distinctively modern spin without losing the elements that made them compulsively watchable."	POS

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