The extended soft-core sex scenes between Hurt and Turner are shocking and risqué even by today’s more promiscuous standards. The last shot shows Matty sunbathing on an anonymous tropical island. 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.Īfter the murder, Ned gets double-crossed in various ways, discovering he was picked out and set up by Matty from the very beginning.Īfter 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. In the midst of a terrible heatwave, he accidentally meets Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner), a rich married woman from a nearby suburb. Ned Racine (William Hurt) is a seedy, womanising lawyer who works in a small town in Florida. See also a scene on Youtube: Body Heat 1981 William Hurt, Kathleen turner - YouTube.
The film makes no attempt to hide its indebtedness to noir tradition. The movie open with the impressive scene (8:20). So, one evening, tailing McCauley's car, Hanna turns on the flashers and pulls him over. McCauley is smart and wary and seems impossible to trap.
He finds himself trapped in a dangerous web which b. As it begins, a Los Angeles police detective named Hanna (Al Pacino) has been tracking a high-level thief named McCauley (Robert De Niro) for days. A small-time attorney becomes entranced with a beautiful, young woman married to a rich and powerful man.
The controversial directorial debut of The Empire Strikes Backand Raiders Of The Lost Arkwriter Lawrence Kasdan, Body Heat generated powerful and divergent reactions upon its initial release. There is a sequence at the center of Michael Mann's 'Heat' that illuminates the movie's real subject.