Body Heat 1981 123movies

Watch: Body Heat 1981 123movies, Full Movie Online – Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he’s picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn’t long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty’s rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull it off?.
Plot: In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
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	7.4/10 Votes: 36,286
	98% | RottenTomatoes
	77/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 444 Popularity: 22.553 | TMDB

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A sultry, sweaty update of Double Indemnity
The coastal Florida town in Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat brings to mind remote colonial outposts in movies like The Letter (nearby Miami, here, seems as far away as London). A sweltering spell of weather settles down for a long roost, and the distant glow of an old hotel – a relic of the peninsula’s past as an exotic getaway for northerners with money – lights the opening scene; it’s been torched for the insurance, an occurrence so common as to warrant little comment.

It’s a town where William Hurt, a lawyer who’s neither very bright nor very scrupulous, ekes out a modest existence that seems to suit him; he can dine at the best restaurant in town once a month so long as he doesn’t order an appetizer. The rest of his time he spends lazily with bourbon or beer or in bed with whoever obliges him.

Then he meets up with Kathleen Turner, who hangs around cocktail lounges when her wheeler-dealer husband (Richard Crenna) is out of town, which is a lot. After the ritual game of cat-and-mouse, Turner and Hurt kindle a torrid romance, despite the enervating heat that keeps everything else limp as dishrags. Soon, the pillow talk works around to murder….

Of course, Body Heat is a latter-day version of the story for which Double Indemnity serves as archetype: Duplicitous woman seduces lust-addled stud into killing rich older husband, then leaves him to twist slowly, slowly in the wind. There’s not even enough wind to stir the chimes that festoon the porch off Turner’s bedroom — can’t the rich old cuckold spring for air conditioning? Hurt and Turner are reduced to emptying the refrigerator’s ice tray into the post-coital bath they share — but Hurt’s left twisting nonetheless, in one of the better updates of this ageless tale.

In her movie debut, Turner makes her deepest impression with her best asset, that dimple-Haig voice of hers, all silk and smoke (but neither she nor Kasdan, who also wrote the script, quite justify her character’s long and intricate back-story of ruthless scheming). With his long, lithe college-boy’s build and wife-swapper’s mustache left over from the ’70s, Hurt embodies the self-satisfied patsy whose zipper leads him through life. Crenna (who played this Walter Neff role in the 1973 TV remake of Double Indemnity) now takes on the role of the disposable husband, the victim (or rather, the first victim).

But it’s two smaller parts that give the movie a special shine. Mickey Rourke, as the local arsonist whom Hurt once helped out of a jam, ups the voltage in his two scenes, warning the heedless Hurt, then warning him again when it’s all but too late. And, as Hurt’s amiable adversary in the town’s tiny legal circle, Ted Danson proves surprisingly spry and intuitive an actor (and he contributes a lovely little idyll, doing a soft-shoe routine under a street lamp on a pier). There’s a twist or two too many in Body Heat — it’s a bit gimmicky — but, after watching it, you feel as though you, too, should be stripping off your clothes, if only to wring them out.

Double Indemnity? No, Triple.
This is one of those movies that fell though the cracks. I couldn’t find it ever on a big screen, retrospectives you know. I refused to see it on TV for the first time. Sunday night, finally, I saw it in a huge plasma screen. Wow! I can immediately tell why people consider it a remake of Double Indemnity but unlike Gus Van Sant who remade Psycho shot by shot and casts Vince Vaugh as Norman Bates in a massive piece of miscalculation, or Jonathan Demme who remade Charade as The Trouble With Charlie and casts Mark Whalberg in the Cary Grant role, Mark Whalberg! In “Body Heat” Lawrence Kasdan casts William Hurt in the Fred Mac Murray part of the insurance salesman falling into the trap, body and soul. William Hurt’s phenomenal performance reinventing the character makes “Body Heat” unique and without precedent. The power of Kathleen Turner – bursting into the film scene with a bang! – it’s a masterpiece of characterization. She’s way ahead of William Hurt. “You’re not very intelligent, are you? I like that in a man” Superb.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 53 min (113 min), 1 hr 53 min (113 min) (Argentina)
Budget 9000000
Revenue 24058838
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Crime, Drama, Romance
Director Lawrence Kasdan
Writer Lawrence Kasdan
Actors William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award6 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Cameras and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory MGM Laboratories, Hollywood (CA), USA (film processing), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5247)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm (Eastman 5384)