Cinema: Body Heat (1981)

'It is a hot, humid night in Florida. Hurt, playing a cocky but lazy lawyer named Ned Racine, is strolling on a pier where an exhausted band is listlessly playing. He is behind the seated audience. We can see straight down the center aisle to the bandstand. All is dark and red and orange. Suddenly a woman in white stands up, turns around and walks straight toward him. This is Matty Walker. To see her is to need her.
“You’re not too smart, are you?” she says soon after meeting him. “I like that in a man.” (The Roger Ebert review called Kathleen Turner playing Matty Walker: an intriguing original in her first movie role. "...she evoked aspects of Barbara Stanwyck and Lauren Bacall."
I remembered wanting to watch this, this review sold me. Definitely going to see this!

The film itself starts at 20:45 but let's meet up early to have drinks and chat in the ground floor Atrium Bar. There's more space in this bar, and we're also in the right place for Screen 3.

The Garden Cinema is my favourite, I hope you'll like it too. It's an independent cinema that opened in 2022 and is located between Holborn and Covent Garden.

>>>Please book your own ticket - £14, or £12 for members:
https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/body-heat/
I am asking for a £2 fee to go towards site costs. The annual membershihp is very worthwhile: £25 for a rolling 12 months, first ticket free, free members screenings, and £2 off standard price.

Garden Cinema says:
"William Hurt and Kathleen Turner strike sparks in this taut, South Florida-set tale of lust, greed, and murder that echoes 1940s film noir but is charged with a steamy passion that could only flare in the 80s. When libidinous but none-too-bright attorney Ned Racine (Hurt) begins an affair with Matty Walker (Turner), the beautiful wife of an unscrupulous tycoon, their desire to be together leads to thoughts of murder.
Cast: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston, Mickey Rourke"