Synopsis
When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with him. District attorney Robert Garrett decides to prosecute Rebecca, arguing that she deliberately engaged in wild sex with the old man to overexcite him and lead to his premature death. Defense attorney Frank Dulaney defends Rebecca in court while getting sucked into a dangerous affair with her.
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Cast
- MadonnaRebeca Carlson
- Willem DafoeFrank Dulaney
- Julianne MooreSharon Dulaney
- Anne ArcherJoanne Braslow
- Jürgen ProchnowDr. Alan Paley
- Frank LangellaJeffrey Roston
- Lillian LehmanJudge Richter Burnham
- Joe MantegnaRobert Garrett
- Charles HallahanDr. McCurdy
- Stan ShawCharles Biggs
Recommendations
- 60
Newsweek
Body of Evidence won't be remembered for classic plotting or brilliant legal gambits. But give it its due: it holds one's attention. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
A preposterous erotic thriller from the Basic Instinct fingernails-ripped-my-flesh school, Body of Evidence is shamelessly — and, on occasion, amusingly — unadulterated trash. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Body of Evidence is at its most hilarious in the deadly earnestness with which it unfolds its ludicrous plot, populated by paper-thin characters who range from the underdeveloped to the simply inane. BODY is oddly conflicted by the sheer unpleasantness of its depiction of sex. - 40
Chicago Reader
Although I have no facts to support my impression, this erotic courtroom thriller looks as if it grew out of Madonna seeing Basic Instinct and saying, “I wanna do one of those." - 40
Variety
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. - 30
The New York Times
Body of Evidence ranks with the Edsel. It's not going anywhere. As a movie, it looks as if it wanted to be Basic Instinct, though it winds up more like Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS. - 30
Washington Post
A bland, utterly silly, curiously provincial courtroom drama. - 25
ReelViews
In general, thrillers are among the easiest movies to do poorly and the hardest to do well. Body of Evidence takes the easy road, and ends up as a shambles. This is the kind of poor effort that's difficult to forgive.
