Body Heat (1981)

Regisseur:

Lawrence Kasdan

Drehbuchautor:

Lawrence Kasdan (writer)

Premierendatum:

28. August 1981 (USA)

Genre:

Krimi | Drama | Thriller

Werbezeile:

It's a hot summer. Ned Racine is waiting for something special to happen. And when it does... He won't be ready for the consequences.

Plot:

In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

Plot Keywords:

Lip Synching | Legal Conference | Boardwalk | Extramarital Affair | Drawbridge

Filmpreise:

Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

This Will Heat You Up On A Cold Winter Night!

Besetzung

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

Alternativ:

Body Heat - Eine heißkalte Frau (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]
Heißblütig - Kaltblütig (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]
Heißkalte Frau, Eine (Bundesrepublik Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

113 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Mono

Altersfreigabe:

Australia:M (original rating) | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | South Korea:18 | Philippines:R-18 | New Zealand:R16 | Singapore:M18 | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Finland:K-16 | Norway:15 | Peru:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Ireland:18 | UK:X (original rating) | Iceland:16

Drehorte:

Delray Beach, Florida, USA

Firma:

Ladd Company, The

Dies und das:

The two leads ranked #6 on Moviefone's 'The Top 25 Sexiest Movie Couples'. [May 2008]

Pannen:

Faktische Fehler: In the movie, when the new will is invalidated, Edmund's death is determined to be intestate. However, under the doctrine of dependent relative revocation, the first will written by Edmund would be valid. As a result, Heather would have received 50%, as stated in the first will.

Dialogzitate:

Matty: Well, some men, once they get a whiff of it, they trail you like a hound.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Ausschnittsweise enthalten in The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing (2004)

This Will Heat You Up On A Cold Winter Night!

A modern remake of the 1940s film, "Double Indemnity," this movie has a solid, large fan base of its own. That's justifiable, too, because this is well done.

It sports a 1940s-type film noir soundtrack but the rest is purely 1980s. By that, I mainly mean nudity and profanity, although the language isn't that offensive.

Kathleen Turner plays a femme fatale, similar to Barbara Stanwyck's role with Fred MacMurray in "Double Indemnity," except with a different ending. Actually, the entire story is quite different from the classic film noir. William Hurt has MacMurray's male lead role. I liked the classic actors better but Turner and Hurt shine with their performances, too.

This is steamy movie to say the least. Set on hot, humid Florida summer nights, you can almost feel the heat coming out from the TV screen and the heat from the two leads going at it several times. Turner is excellent as a woman who will go to great lengths for money, as they sometimes do. (Hey, my 87-year-old father is dating a 24-year bimbo in Florida, so I know of where I speak.)

The story is divided into three segments: (1) the setup; (2) the romance and plotting of the crime and (3) the crime and unraveling of Hurt as things begin to go very wrong.

An intriguing film, this loses nothing with multiple viewings. It's always interesting. The more I watched this, the more I found - as the case frequently is - myself fascinated with some of the lesser characters such as Hurt's two friends, played by Ted Danson and J.A. Preston. Danson, by the way, gives us a preview of the amoral character he played later in the hit TV series, "Cheers."

This is the kind of film you snuggle up with someone on a cold winter night. It will warm you up as much as your partner!