Another turkey from the queen of pop, and possibly the worst film on her CV of cinematic clunkers.
Body of Evidence (1993)
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Reviews Counted:32
Fresh:2
Rotten:30
Average Rating:2.6/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: An elderly millionaire is found dead in his bedroom, the apparent victim of a heart attack. But the wealthy septuagenarian may have been murdered. His secretary claims this is so, and the police... An elderly millionaire is found dead in his bedroom, the apparent victim of a heart attack. But the wealthy septuagenarian may have been murdered. His secretary claims this is so, and the police investigation uncovers evidence pointing to the dead man's kinky sexual affair with gallery owner Rebecca Carlson -- a woman who stands to inherit $8 million dollars from the deceased's estate. The District Attorney's office charges Rebecca with murder. The weapon: her own deadly body. Hot-shot Portland defense lawyer Frank Dulaney decides to defend Ms. Carlson, and he's convinced of her innocence, at first. But soon he and Rebecca are sharing handcuffs, dripping hot candle wax on each other's bodies and having sex on car rooftops. His mind clouded by lust, Dulaney continues to believe that Rebecca is innocent of all charges -- until he finds his faith in the fatal temptress shaken by a startling courtroom revelation. [More]
Starring: Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer
Starring: Madonna, Willem Dafoe, Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Julianne Moore
Director: Uli Edel
Director: Uli Edel
Screenwriter: Brad Mirman
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
Composer: Graeme Revell
Reviews for Body of Evidence
An erotic thriller that's strangely unerotic and devoid of thrills, this is, however, mercifully short at 100 minutes.
There is little, if any, erotic chemistry between Dafoe and Madonna, and, as a result, their sex scenes look more like hard work than pleasure.
While he may be marginally better at directing kinky sex scenes than Instinct's Paul Verhoeven, [Edel is] stuck with a fairly ho-hum script by Brad Mirman.
A courtroom drama built around the charge that Madonna's body is a deadly weapon with which she 'fornicated' a man to death, this showcase for the singer-thesp as femme fatale is more silly than erotic.
The sour taste that Body left for [director] Edel is evident in his next, very different big screen feature: the children's fantasy The Little Vampire.
Yet another failed effort at making Madonna a legit actress, in a preposterous thriller could be labeled Basic Stink.
Tries hard to be hot and steamy but ends up being lifeless and laughable.
Mediocre erotic thriller trying to capture Basic Instinct success. Tries too hard, not really sexy, and certainly not mysterious.
A sluggish courtroom melodrama relieved only by unintenional laughter.
Be thankful that its star, a singer, dancer, mother, and woman of the world, has plenty of day jobs to go back to.
Madonna provides the body. The script provides the evidence. Together they prove conclusively that bodies without stories make rotten movies.
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