Filled with the snappy, flirty dialogue and many charming side characters including a marvelous Ted Danson as Ned’s friend Peter Lowenstein, Body Heat turns into a genuinely suspenseful thriller and a stylish remake of the noir genre. Ed, Matty’s husband, has a large fortune and a will that conveniently includes Matty. Ned and Matty’s affair begins as a sexually charged seemingly chance meeting at an out door concert, builds to an intense affair and eventually into a plot to kill Matty’s husband. Recently released in Blu-Ray format, the film’s moody, languorous shots of an unbearably hot Florida summer are still sumptuous. Highly derivative of the best noir films of the 1940s and particularly of Double Indemnity, Body Heat is the story of a sleazy yet likeable small town lawyer, Ned Racine (William Hurt) and his affair with Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner) a mysterious looker who wants her rich husband dead. Lawrence Kasdan’s lush neo noir, Body Heat, has aged well since its 1981 debut.
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