At a bandstand during a heat wave in a small Florida town Ned Racine (William Hurt) meets the sultry Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) and changes their lives forever. Racine is a scuzzy lawyer who screws everything that allows him to, while Matty is the trophy wife for an older man (Richard Crenna) who may not be on the level. As Ned and Matty continue into their passionate affair they decide that there is only one solution: they have to kill her husband.Body Heat is a classic film noir tale that takes place in the heat of the moment in a town that is dark, dirty, and lacking air conditioning. Lawrence Kasdan takes the reigns of his first film and runs with it in what starts out as almost a softcore porn tale and transforms into a dark story about a love triangle populated by three bad people, but they're bad for different reasons.
The cast is great and Kasdan shows what a great talent he is behind the camera. Body Heat is a film with more depth than what it has been given credit for. A great, murky film.
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