Sunday, August 22, 2021

Lawrence Kasdan's BODY HEAT (1981)

Set during a heat wave but reportedly filmed during a cold snap. They had to spray the actors down with sweat as they shivered in the cold.

William Hurt plays a good-looking but incompetent attorney who starts sleeping with Kathleen Turner. They plot to murder her wealthy husband. 

Perhaps an antidote to Gideon's Trumpet. Having a Florida lawyer may not be much of a boon after all. Turner's Columbia law school graduate husband (Richard Crenna) politely says, "That's a good school," when Hurt tells him he went to Florida State University.

Young Ted Danson as Hurt's prosecutor friend. Mickey Rourke as one of his clients.

I didn't mind them killing Turner's venture capitalist husband, but why I was rooting for William Hurt?

Available on The Criterion Channel

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