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Body of Evidence

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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

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[There's] no tension.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Time Out
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Another turkey from the queen of pop, and possibly the worst film on her CV of cinematic clunkers.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
07/20/09
Alistair Harkness
Alistair Harkness
Channel 4 Film
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An erotic thriller that's strangely unerotic and devoid of thrills, this is, however, mercifully short at 100 minutes.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
07/20/09
Mark Salisbury
Mark Salisbury
Empire Magazine
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The most enjoyably awful of Madonna's awful movies.

Full Review Source: Movieline | comment Comment
04/17/01
Edward Margulies
Edward Margulies
Movieline

No review available.

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04/24/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

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.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/20/09
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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Madonna may have the body, but there's no evidence she can act with it.

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08/09/02
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

Director Uli Edel concentrates on the sleaze when he should be helping Madonna act.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

I'd rather eat my own liver than sit through this again

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02/03/09
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Moviehole

No review available.

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07/26/02
David Poland
David Poland
Hot Button

What do you say about this kind of movie?

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
01/01/00
Desson Thomson
Desson Thomson
Washington Post

The biggest disappointment lies in Uli Edel.

Full Review Source: rec.arts.movies.reviews | comment Comment
08/05/02
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
rec.arts.movies.reviews

Yet another failed effort at making Madonna a legit actress, in a preposterous thriller could be labeled Basic Stink.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
05/01/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

No review available.

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07/24/04
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion

Mediocre erotic thriller trying to capture Basic Instinct success. Tries too hard, not really sexy, and certainly not mysterious.

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07/14/03
Fred Topel
Fred Topel
About.com

This is the kind of poor effort that's difficult to forgive.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
01/01/00
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews

Madonna provides the body. The script provides the evidence. Together they prove conclusively that bodies without stories make rotten movies.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
12/01/02
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

No review available.

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05/16/03
Jon Niccum
Jon Niccum
Lawrence Journal-World

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.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
07/20/09
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

You know how sometimes something can be so bad that it's almost good? Well, that's more or less the case here, with stress on the word “less.”

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
01/01/00
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
 
 
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