Body Heat is the acclaimed 1981 modern film noir from acclaimed filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill). Ned Racine (William Hurt, Broadcast News, A History of Violence, The Village, Lost in Space) is a dubious lawyer in a small town in Florida who suffers from the heat wave that has covered the entire state. On one evening he meets the married Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner, Romancing the Stone, V.I.