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Body Heat is a 1981 American neo-noir [1] [2] erotic thriller film written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan in his directorial debut. It stars William Hurt and Kathleen Turner , featuring Richard Crenna , Ted Danson , J. A. Preston and Mickey Rourke .
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Turner stated in 2018, "Body Heat was a blessing because I went straight to being a leading actor and I didn't have to suffer any of this predatory male behaviour like many young actresses. It doesn't frustrate me that nearly four decades after that film I'm still referred to as a sexual icon. I got over that a long time ago." [23]
Body Heat helped transform the husky-voiced Turner into an international sensation who would soon go on to make hit films like Romancing the Stone (1984), Prizzi’s Honor (1985) and The Jewel of ...
Body Heat is a 1981 film by Lawrence Kasdan. Body Heat may also refer to: Thermoregulation, the ability of an organism to keep its body temperature within certain boundaries; Body Heat (Blue System album) Body Heat (Quincy Jones album) "Bodyheat", a 1976 song by James Brown; Bodyheat, a James Brown album containing the song
While editing Body Heat Kasdan had the idea for a large ensemble film, partly in reaction to the "claustrophobic" experience of working with just two actors in intimate settings. [5] His lawyer's wife, Barbara Benedek, had begun writing screenplays (and was a story editor on two comedy TV series for ABC), and Kasdan proposed co-writing with her ...
In his book Hollywood's Dark Cinema: The American Film Noir, Robert Barton Palmer claimed "perhaps the most popular genre in the 1990s, the so-called erotic thriller [...] is a direct descendant of the classic film noir". [6] Many films of the 1960s and 70s also provocatively mixed noir themes with softcore sex, erotic fantasy, and voyeurism. [7]
Body Double is a 1984 American satirical neo-noir erotic thriller film directed, co-written, and produced by Brian De Palma.It stars Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, Melanie Griffith and Deborah Shelton.