Body Heat

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  • Friday, Aug 22

  • Saturday, Aug 23

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Body Heat

Presented on 35mm

William Hurt and Kathleen Turner strike sparks in Lawrence Kasdan’s Body Heat, a sexy, haunting tale of desire and skullduggery that echoes 1940s film noirs but is charged with an energy and passion that could only flare in the ’80s.

A small-time attorney (Hurt) becomes entranced with a beautiful young woman (Turner), who is married to a rich and powerful man. He finds himself trapped in a dangerous web which binds and turns him into the pawn of a calculating, manipulative woman.

Aided by a sultry John Barry score, Kasdan’s assured directorial debut foreshadowed the emotional textures he would bring to later films The Big Chill, The Accidental Tourist, and Grand Canyon. Sit back and bask in this contemporary classic’s wicked warmth.

"Still regarded as one of the steamiest movies of all time, Body Heat is a fantastic exponent of how noir has developed."
Ian Nathan, Empire Magazine
"While Body Heat involves murder, fraud, a weak hero led astray and a seductive, double-dealing broad, it also incorporates something new: a sexual explicitness that the old films could only hint at."
Janet Maslin, New York Times

This film is part of the After Hours series.



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