Can You Trust Her?

Body Heat

Kathleen Turner and William Hurt star in this steamy Florida-set neo-noir thriller.

USA 1981
Dir Lawrence Kasdan
With Kathleen Turner, William Hurt, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson
113min
35mm
Certificate 18

The ingredients of 1940s film noir are updated to daring effect in Kasdan’s steamy Florida-set erotic thriller, one of the key entries in the neo-noir cycle. A femme fatale if ever you saw one, Kathleen Turner is wickedly sultry as Matty Walker, a woman who wants her husband dead, and who will use any wiles available to get William Hurt’s attorney to help her.

James Bell