113 mins |
Rated
R16 (Violence & offensive language)
Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Starring Richard Crenna, Kathleen Turner, William Hurt, Mickey Rourke
Playing as part of Academy's Wet Hot Academy Summer programme of sexy Summer classics Jan 13 - Feb 05 2023!
Shyster lawyer Ned Racine (William Hurt) begins a passionate affair with Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner), wife of a wealthy Florida businessman (Richard Crenna). With the help of one of his criminal clients, bomb maker Teddy Lewis (Mickey Rourke), Ned hatches a scheme to kill Matty's husband so that they can run away together with his money. But complications build upon double-crosses, launching the hapless lawyer into a situation far more treacherous than he imagined.
"Written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, a wunderkind filmmaker fresh off co-writing The Empire Strikes Back for George Lucas, and shot and cut by the husband-wife team of cinematographer John Bailey and editor Carol Littleton, BODY HEAT is a marvelous, self-aware continuation of a grand tradition that brings 1940s tropes into the ’80s, pushing hard-boiled attitude right up to the brink of parody." - Matt Zoller Seitz
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Playing as part of Academy's Wet Hot Academy Summer programme of sexy Summer classics Jan 13 - Feb 05 2023!
Shyster lawyer Ned Racine (William Hurt) begins a passionate affair with Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner), wife of a wealthy Florida businessman (Richard Crenna). With the help of one of his criminal clients, bomb maker Teddy Lewis (Mickey Rourke), Ned hatches a scheme to kill Matty's husband so that they can run away together with his money. But complications build upon double-crosses, launching the hapless lawyer into a situation far more treacherous than he imagined.
"Written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan, a wunderkind filmmaker fresh off co-writing The Empire Strikes Back for George Lucas, and shot and cut by the husband-wife team of cinematographer John Bailey and editor Carol Littleton, BODY HEAT is a marvelous, self-aware continuation of a grand tradition that brings 1940s tropes into the ’80s, pushing hard-boiled attitude right up to the brink of parody." - Matt Zoller Seitz