In this humid, atmospheric film noir, a sweltering summer in south Florida sets the stage for a dark romance between an attorney and a beautiful woman as they plot her wealthy husband's early demise. Mickey Rourke's debut as an arson expert on parole is convincing and the script by Kasdan is dazzlingly treacherous.

During one hot and sultry Florida summer, a shady lawyer launches into a torrid relationship with a lonely woman married to a rich businessman. As their relationship grows, she decides to enlist his help in killing her husband so that the two can live comfortably off his riches. After they've successfully completed the deed, the lovers' relationship sours, and they both become principal suspects in the police investigation.

Kathleen Turner's film debut and Lawrence Kasdan's directorial debut. Loosely adapted from James M. Cain and Billy Wilder's "Double Indemnity".

Kim Zimmer replaced Turner in her role on "The Doctors."

Color by Technicolor.

DVD Features:

Keep Case
Widescreen
Additional Release Material:
Interviews - 1981 Interview Footage with Kathleen Turner and William Hurt
Text/Photo Gallery:
Featurette - 1. Body Heat: The Plan
2. Body Heat: The Production
3. Body Heat: The Post-Prodution

Distributor Notes: Body Heat: Deluxe Edition

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. 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.

Source: Warner Home Video

William Hurt: American Actor, THE BIG CHILL (1983)
Kathleen Turner: American Actress
Richard Crenna: American TV/Film Actor
Mickey Rourke: American actor, 9 1/2 WEEKS
Ted Danson: American Actor

Lawrence Kasdan: Director/Screenwriter/Prod.

John Barry: Score composer

"...An engrossing, mightily stylish [film]....Luxuriant in superb craftsmanship..."
"...[BODY HEAT] can lay some claim to a textbook perfection..."
"...It has a power that transcends its sources....BODY HEAT is good enough to make film noir play like we hadn't seen it before..."