What movie feels like summer to you?

I wanted to be a basic bitch and recommend Do The Right Thing because not only is that movie perfect, it is deeply and angrily sweaty. But then I thought, everyone knows that movie is sweltering, so what other movies have you turning on the A/C? This of course led me to Body Heat, Lawrence Kasdan’s excruciatingly wet erotic thriller set in the midst of an unrelenting Florida summer. Everyone is glistening, sexy, and getting played—they could’ve called this movie Wet Hot American Summer and it would’ve worked perfectly. Kathleen Turner seduces dumb-as-a-doorknob lawyer William Hurt like any good femme fatale, while a stellar supporting cast (Mickey Rourke, Ted Danson) goes over-the-top in a Floridian weirdo way. The whole thing will have you tugging at your collar, because you can feel the steam coming off of everyone’s bodies, in every sense of the phrase. As someone who spent too many summers baking on Texas asphalt, Body Heat is one of the only movies that gives me the familiar feeling of wanting to run inside and take an ice bath—entangled in a passionate crime plot or not. [Jacob Oller]