Set on hot, humid Florida summer nights, you can almost feel the heat coming out from the TV screen and the heat from the two leads going at it several times. I liked the classic actors better but Turner and Hurt shine with their performances, too.
William Hurt has MacMurray's male lead role. Actually, the entire story is quite different from the classic film noir. Kathleen Turner plays a femme fatale, similar to Barbara Stanwyck's role with Fred MacMurray in 'Double Indemnity,' except with a different ending. By that, I mainly mean nudity and profanity, although the language isn't that offensive. It sports a 1940s-type film noir soundtrack but the rest is purely 1980s. That's justifiable, too, because this is well done. A modern remake of the 1940s film, 'Double Indemnity,' this movie has a solid, large fan base of its own.
