Body Heat, the movie…a review

by Richard Subber | Apr 23, 2024 | Human Nature, Theater and play reviews

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Movie review:

Body Heat

Some like it hot. If that’s you, you’ll like Body Heat (1981, rated R, 113 minutes).

Ned Racine (William Hurt in one of his most intense performances) is a caricature of a small town lawyer who doesn’t mind dealing with small town crooks. He also likes the ladies, and he gets snared by a big-thinking criminal lady that he can’t handle.

Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner is an archetype of ambitious, erotic, and nasty) wants to kill her rich husband. She picks Ned to help her do it.

Ned doesn’t figure it all out until he’s in a prison cell.

Matty takes the money and runs.

Body Heat has a lot of sweating, a lot of smoking, some humor (thank you, Ted Danson), and quite a bit of richly filmed hot love and fully expressed humanity in full view.

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