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Body Heat
1981
· Movie
· 113 min
B
MEANRANK
78/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #921
- IMDb #1337
- Rotten Tomatoes #755
- Metacritic #700
- Letterboxd #1162
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #346
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1578
- Metacritic Critics #902
- Metacritic Audience #556
- Criticker #590
- Kinopoisk #2493
- AlloCiné #1365
- Trakt #1914
Every rating
63–96
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 63, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 96.
See the most agreed on films →A small-town Florida lawyer becomes entangled in a passionate affair with a mysterious married woman. Their lust quickly turns into a plot to murder her wealthy husband. The lawyer is drawn deeper into a web of deception and double-crosses, where nothing is as it seems and the heat is not just from the weather.
Details
- Director
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Writer
- Lawrence Kasdan
- Studio
- The Ladd Company
- Released
- 28 August 1981
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $9.0M
- Box office
- $24.1M
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Cast
Full cast (25) →
Awards
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award6 nominations total
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