
A millionaire is found dead of heart failure handcuffed to the bed with a home video tape of him and his lover. When cocaine is found in his system, and his will leaves $8 million to his lover, they arrest her on suspicion of murder. Her lawyer succumbs to her charms, and he begins a torrid and kinky affair with her. As new evidence turns up during trial, he begins to wonder if he's defending a murderer.... (Full plot summary below)
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A millionaire is found dead of heart failure handcuffed to the bed with a home video tape of him and his lover. When cocaine is found in his system, and his will leaves $8 million to his lover, they arrest her on suspicion of murder. Her lawyer succumbs to her charms, and he begins a torrid and kinky affair with her. As new evidence turns up during trial, he begins to wonder if he's defending a murderer.
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| Nick's Flick PicksNick DavisBe thankful that its star, a singer, dancer, mother, and woman of the world, has plenty of day jobs to go back to. |
| NewsweekDavid AnsenBody of Evidence won't be remembered for classic plotting or brilliant legal gambits. But give it its due: it holds one's attention. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksDirector Uli Edel concentrates on the sleaze when he should be helping Madonna act. |
| The SpectatorVanessa LettsThe only people who could possible hope actually to enjoy this film would be... those sad types who derive pleasure from feeling cross. |
| The Seattle TimesJeff ShannonAlthough I have no facts to support my impression, this erotic courtroom thriller looks as if it grew out of Madonna seeing Basic Instinct and saying, “I wanna do one of those." |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA preposterous erotic thriller from the Basic Instinct fingernails-ripped-my-flesh school, Body of Evidence is shamelessly — and, on occasion, amusingly — unadulterated trash. |
| EmpireMark SalisburyAn erotic thriller that's strangely unerotic and devoid of thrills, this is, however, mercifully short at 100 minutes. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe PollackBody of Evidence ranks with the Edsel. It's not going anywhere. As a movie, it looks as if it wanted to be Basic Instinct, though it winds up more like Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranThere's bondage, buggery, and a clothes-ripping chase up the stairs. Apart from that, there's a bit of verbal back-and-forth in court between the DA (Mantegna) and defence about whether she used her body as a lethal weapon to kill her millionaire lover and inherit; a brace of shifty witnesses (Archer and Prochnow); no tension; and Portland, Oregon in the rain. |
| Film4Alistair HarknessAnother turkey from the queen of pop, and possibly the worst film on her CV of cinematic clunkers. |