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    Body Heat (1981)

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    The controversial directorial debut of The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders Of The Lost Ark writer Lawrence Kasdan, Body Heat generated powerful and divergent reactions upon its initial release.

    The film makes no attempt to hide its indebtedness to noir tradition.

    Ned Racine (William Hurt) is a seedy, womanising lawyer who works in a small town in Florida. In the midst of a terrible heatwave, he accidentally meets Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner), a rich married woman from a nearby suburb. A steamy affair quickly develops.

    Soon enough, Matty has convinced Ned to murder her husband (Richard Crenna) so they can be together (and rich) forever – and to think it’s his idea.

    After the murder, Ned gets double-crossed in various ways, discovering he was picked out and set up by Matty from the very beginning.

    After Matty fakes her own death, Ned is sent to jail, where he does some research and learns that she had actually taken on another woman’s identity. But it’s too late to do anything.

    The last shot shows Matty sunbathing on an anonymous tropical island.

    The extended soft-core sex scenes between Hurt and Turner are shocking and risqué even by today’s more promiscuous standards.

    Ned Racine
    William Hurt
    Matty Walker
    Kathleen Turner
    Edmund Walker
    Richard Crenna
    Peter Lowenstein
    Ted Danson
    Oscar Grace
    JA Preston
    Teddy Lewis
    Mickey Rourke
    Mary Ann
    Kim Zimmer
    Stella
    Jane Hallaren
    Roz Kraft
    Lanna Saunders
    Heather Kraft
    Carola McGuinness
    Miles Hardin
    Michael Ryan
    Judge Costanza
    Larry Marko
    Beverly
    Deborah Lucchesi
    Angela
    Lynn Hallowell
    Michael Glenn
    Thom Sharp

    Director
    Lawrence Kasdan

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