"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man," says Kathleen Turner to William Hurt, moments into their first meeting. The banter is crackling along and he laughs, but maybe he shouldn't have - she might be telling him more than he realises about himself.
Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan made his directorial debut with his own script, a faithful evocation of a classic film noir set-up. Turner is the femme fatale, and Hurt her willingly corruptible victim, a small-town lawyer swept up in a murder plot in the swelter of a Florida summer. tries a little too hard now and then to nudge us into noticing just how cool and sultry Turner is.
It gives Hurt a little more leeway to be puzzled, smitten, available and fatally pliable. "You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man," says Kathleen Turner to William Hurt, moments into their first meeting.
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