{"id":18717,"date":"2026-06-25T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18717"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T23:05:55","slug":"body-heat-1981-lawrence-kasdan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18717","title":{"rendered":"Body Heat (1981, Lawrence Kasdan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer William Hurt meets Kathleen Turner on a hot week in Florida and goes absolutely sex mad, ultimately buying bombs from Pyro Mickey Rourke and murdering Kathleen&#8217;s older husband Richard Crenna (of MST3K flick <em>Marooned<\/em>) so they can be (rich) together, but she vanishes with the money, letting Hurt get busted by his cop friend J.A. Preston (<em>Remo Williams<\/em>) and prosecutor Ted Danson (the year before getting buried in the sand in <em>Creepshow<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/bodyheat1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>The director&#8217;s and Turner&#8217;s debut, with Hurt fresh from <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18081\">Altered States<\/a><\/em>, and some good quippy dialogue.  <a href=\"https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/filipe_furtado\/film\/body-heat\/\">Filipe<\/a> called it genre autopsy.  I had high hopes, but this week I&#8217;d just seen better craft in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18715\">The Stunt Man<\/a><\/em>, better dialogue in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18716\">The Jerk<\/a><\/em>, and more perversion in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/18714\">Turks Fruit<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/bodyheat2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer William Hurt meets Kathleen Turner on a hot week in Florida and goes absolutely sex mad, ultimately buying bombs from Pyro Mickey Rourke and murdering Kathleen&#8217;s older husband Richard Crenna (of MST3K flick Marooned) so they can be (rich) together, but she vanishes with the money, letting Hurt get busted by his cop friend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,2330,3444,2266,1099],"class_list":["post-18717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-florida","tag-kathleen-turner","tag-lawrence-kasdan","tag-william-hurt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18738,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18717\/revisions\/18738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}