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Summer Heat (1987)

Drama | 80 minutes
3,00 2 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 80 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Michie Gleason

Stars: Lori Singer, Anthony Edwards and Kathy Bates

IMDb score: 4,8 (502)

Releasedate: 29 May 1987

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Summer Heat plot

"Anything can happen in the heat of the moment… even murder!"

The North Carolina countryside during the Great Depression. Roxy is a young, lonely wife and mother who is seduced by a drifter her husband has hired. Together they plot a murder, as her own husband has neglected her.

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I thought I'd include a witty quote for this film, in italics as is customary. But so many obvious quotes pop up in the last fifteen minutes that I simply don't know which one to choose.

Different things happen to different people?

Never said no to anyone in my life?

How can she go to Virginia?

No better medicine than lying in your mom's bed?

No, I can't go with you?

No, I'm going to?

And then, of course, a song by Kim Carnes with her drunken voice and something about a heart that needs a home. Yes, it's an imperfect film, with a far too sentimental and weak plot, but hey, Lori Singer is in it, and that makes up for a lot, and not just the idea that five people made a living for a year or so from our Lori's big hair, and are thus forever honored in the "hair" credits. Yes, you can't just put that much big hair on screen.

Yet there's more, because Lori's enormous blue eyes also appear regularly. Rather gratuitous, actually, because the plot barely touches on her beauty. The story is actually more about the men and their rather manosphere behavior. Fortunately, they do get what they deserve, but it doesn't do Lori justice at all.

Yet one of the most promising actresses of that era who ultimately didn't make it. And why exactly? When you see those eyes in the few successful shots in this film, you don't understand. Even if she'd had no more talent than a talent for acting, the directors would have been lining up. For that one image of those eyes, if necessary.

Seriously, wasn't there anyone who could make a movie with that? Not then, and apparently not now.

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