NOIR NIGHTS
The Nights
Sunday, June 9 | 5:00pm
$25 Cash only
Available 1 hour before screening
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Film noir, what critic Roger Ebert once called“the most American film genre,” is known for low-key lighting as dark as a killer’s heart, camera angles more skewed than a gumshoe’s moral compass, and weaving plots as convoluted as was to circumvent the production code.
Join us for a film series of dimly lit alleys, ambivalent motivations, and hapless, hard-drinking men and women who would just as soon kill you as love you.
The Film
Body Heat (1981)
Shyster lawyer Ned Racine (William Hurt) begins a passionate affair with Matty Walker (Kathleen Turner), wife of a wealthy Florida businessman (Richard Crenna). With the help of one of his criminal clients, bomb maker Teddy Lewis (Mickey Rourke), Ned hatches a scheme to kill Matty's husband so that they can run away together with his money. But complications build upon double-crosses, launching the hapless lawyer into a situation far more treacherous than he imagined.