
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull it off?... (Full plot summary below)
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Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull it off?
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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertBody Heat is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullThe 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 |
| Q Network Film DeskJames KendrickEvery aspect of Body Heat is dead-on, including the two central performances by Hurt and Turner. |
| Tim Dirks' The Greatest FilmsTim DirksThe plot twist at the conclusion is a knockout surprise. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinKasdan's moody tribute to cinema's dark past set a gold standard for neo-noirs that has seldom been equaled. |
| Washington PostGary ArnoldThere's no mistaking the fact that Kasdan loves the tawdry genre he's working in. |
| TimeRichard CorlissBody Heat is full of meaty characters and pungent performances...a film to be seen at a drive-in, on a heavy summer night, with someone you trust. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrLawrence Kasdan's 1981 noir fable is highly derivative in its overall conception, but it finds some freshness in its details. All in all, this evokes the spirit of James M. Cain more effectively than the 1981 remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice did. |
| The New York TimesJanet MaslinWhile 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. |
| EmpireIan NathanStill regarded as one of the steamiest movie's of all time, Body Heat is a fantastic exponenet of how noir has developed. |