Body Heat (1981)

Ned Racine is een advocaat in een klein dorpje in Florida. Tijdens een hittegolf ontmoet hij de getrouwde Matty Walker. Een gepassioneerde relatie volgt, maar het duurt niet lang voor ze doorkrijgen dat het enige dat tussen hen in staat Matty's rijke echtgenoot is. Ze verzinnen een plan om hem te vermoorden.

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Lawrence Kasdan's first directorial effort is a throwback to the early days of film noir. The scene is a beastly hot Florida coastal town, where naive attorney Ned (William Hurt) is entranced by the alluring Matty (Kathleen Turner in her film debut). Ned is manipulated into killing Matty's much older husband (Richard Crenna), the plan being that Ned's knowledge of legal matters will enable both conspirators to escape scott-free. This might have been the case, had not Matty been infinitely craftier than the cloddish Ned. Just when it seems as though the film has run out of plot twists, we're handed yet another sur...
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In this humid, atmospheric film noir, a sweltering summer in south Florida sets the stage for a dark romance between an attorney and a beautiful woman as they plot her wealthy husband's early demise. Mickey Rourke's debut as an arson expert on parole is convincing and the script by Kasdan is dazzlingly treacherous.

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