![]() ![]() Produced on a modest (by Hollywood standards) budget of $9 million, "Body Heat" would go on to gross more than $24 million at the domestic box office, becoming both a commercial and critical success. ![]() There's even a scripted mention of it when Ned first meets the man he'll eventually kill. Peter Burke/WPTV In this screen shot from the 1981 movie "Body Heat," William Hurt wears an FSU shirt while Ted Danson talks to him in this scene that was filmed in Lake Worth Beach, Fla. Set in the fictitious South Florida town of Miranda Beach, the steamy pulp crime drama stars Hurt as a disreputable lawyer who is lured into killing the wealthy husband (Richard Crenna) of a femme fatale (Kathleen Turner, making her film debut) with whom he is having an affair.Īlthough the Broward County municipality of Hollywood also stood in for Miranda Beach, Lake Worth (as it was known at the time) is the unquestioned star when it comes to screen time.Ī vacant store at the corner of Dixie Highway and Lucerne Avenue in what is now known as Lake Worth Beach was converted into Stella's Coffee Shop (813 Lucerne Ave.), where Hurt's Ned Racine and Danson's assistant deputy prosecutor Peter Lowenstein spend their time discussing Turner's Matty Walker and other women ("I happen to know that Glenda is seriously involved with a narc from Palm Beach," Jane Hallaren, who plays Stella in the movie, tells them). 'You're not very smart, are you? I like that in a man.' "When Ted is dancing on the pier and Bill is in shorts and a T-shirt, it was freezing." "You know that most of the movie takes place at night and it was especially cold, but we were trying to create the impression of heat," Kasdan told the Post in 2000. Much of the movie was filmed in Palm Beach County.īut the unseasonably cool temperatures would prove to be the ultimate illusion for the scripted heat wave, as actors William Hurt and Ted Danson could attest. Peter Burke/WPTV This is the DVD cover for the 1981 movie "Body Heat," starring William Hurt and Kathleen Turner. ![]()
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