Hurt looks too soft to do 'what's necessary', but his Ned does it all, convincingly. Though not a good guy, we canвЂ™t help rooting for him. HeвЂ™s warned repeatedly to back off, not to do what he feels compelled to do, but he canвЂ™t help himself. Hurt is brilliant as Ned вЂ“ a guy whoвЂ™s intelligent but not very smart вЂ“ who gets in over his head. I wonвЂ™t spoil the ending, other than to say it is intended to surprise you, and probably will. The writer/director Lawrence Kasdan does a nice job building suspense and keeping the audience guessing about whatвЂ™s going to happen next. Can they do it? Will they live happily ever after? Are you kidding? вЂ“ this is a noir film. But that damn husband is gonna be a nuisance and pretty soon thereвЂ™s talk of bumping him off. And rich (or at least her husbandвЂ™s rich.) Turns out, Mattie is lonely, and before you know it, the sparks fly.

This woman is hotter than the heat wave engulfing the town. One day, he sees Matty Walker (Turner), a vision in a white, clingy dress - and his life changes. The plot is familiar: Ned (Hurt) is a somewhat bumbling young lawyer in a sweltering Florida town, whoвЂ™s favorite pastime, aside from hanging out with his guy friends, is bedding the young gals in town (chasing skirts or dames, in the old vernacular). We understand how one caught up in such a fever could kill to keep it.

In Double Indemnity, for example, sex is the lure, and there is certainly lust and desire but in the 1981 film lust and desire give way to passionate sex, which turns to obsession, which then motivates murderous schemes propelling the rest of the story. Indeed, one of the distinguishing features of this movie, as compared to its 1940вЂ™s and вЂ50вЂ™s predecessors, is the explicit depiction of the sexual passion that drives the protagonists to their fates. (My female companions seemed not to mind at all the depiction of HurtвЂ™s glistening torso and handsome mug, either.) Both are вЂњhotвЂќ in the current vernacular sense as well, particularly Turner, who makes a great and sexy femme fatale. Body Heat fe atures hot young actors William Hurt and Kathleen Turner at the very beginning of their careers (for Hurt this was just his 3rd film, after Altered States and Eyewitness it was TurnerвЂ™s stunning feature film debut).

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