Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Crappy film

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Watched this movie for the first time when it first came out on video. 35 years later, every time I hear a wind chime, especially on a hot, humid night, I get so turned on! If you've seen it, you'll understand.(A young Mickey Rourke, if you can picture it, was super sexy in his small role.)

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.

Ned Racine (William Hurt) is a small seedy lawyer in Florida. It's a searing heatwave. He picks up Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner). She's married to wealthy businessman Edmund (Richard Crenna), and a passionate affair ensues. She wants to leave Edmund but there's a prenup. So they hatch a plot to kill him.The is one sweaty movie. It is one of the best modern noir. It has all the styles of noir from first time director Lawrence Kasdan who also wrote the screenplay. It takes all the components of the old noir genre and adds the explicit sexuality of newcomer Kathleen Turner. It is very effective. It pushes the genre to new heights.

johnnyaction80, I don't agree that Matty was necessarily pining for Ned at the end. She didn't seem very happy, but it was never clear that she wasn't just acting when she was with him. If the movie was trying to show her as regretting her choice for money over him, I think it should have been more explicit. Maybe it could have shown her as treating her new man differently.If Lawrence Kasdan accounted for the difference between "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," I like him.Nimbo, I read either on this site or Wikipedia that he said "it's very hot" in Portuguese, suggesting they were in Brazil.