Review

by Joanne P

excellent

This is one of my favorite films, and it sustains repeated viewing mainly because of the direction, and the way he creates an atmosphere that allows one to picture vividly up the heady, sweaty Florida heat wave and the voracity, lust and deceitfulness of it's two leading characters. This director is Lawrence Jasdan, as this is his first big movie – what a debut! The script is excellent, and, William Hurt, in one of his most outstanding roles, plays a lawyer unsuspectingly drawn into a game of dishonesty and trickery created by Kathleen Turner (also her screen debut) as a young married party girl who Is conspiring - with Hurt's assistance - to murder her husband. The writing is satirically hilarious, and the atmosphere is further added to by the actor’s sweaty, emotional chemistry. The script is superb, and William Hurt, Kathleen Turner and Mickey Rourke’s performances are excellent.