Factual error: When Lowenstein meets Racine on the pier he proceeds to commit a series of appalling breaches of legal regulations, if not the law itself. He tells Racine - a man he acknowledges as a suspect in the murder case he is discussing - about the progress the investigating police are making, the nature and direction of their enquiries, the names of people they are questioning, and the vital importance of a missing piece of evidence. There is nothing in Lowenstein's character that would suggest that he is so unbelievably stupid to do something like this! He would be fired for divulging such sensitive information, and he is handing Racine a Get Out Of Jail Free Card - if the judge didn't dismiss the charges against him, he'd be obliged to declare a mistrial.
Body Heat (1981)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson
Ned and Matty do kill Edmund. Ned attacks Edmund with a board and then takes his body somewhere and destroys the place with a bomb that he had made. Ned then later learns that Matty had the will changed, but since it was not valid, all of Edmund's money goes to her and not half to her and the other half to Edmund's sister, Roz. Ned also discovers that Edmund's glasses, which he always wore, were not at the crime scene and that someone was trying to call Ned the night of the murder, which makes Ned a suspect.
When Ned asks Matty about the glasses, she claims the maid must have taken them and she wants money if she is to return them. Matty later tells Ned that the maid stopped by Matty's place to drop off the glasses. However, the man who helped Ned make the bomb tells Ned that he saw Matty and helped her make a bomb. When Ned sees Matty, he forces her to go into the boathouse where the glasses supposedly are. As Matty enters the boathouse, it explodes.
Ned is arrested for the 'murder' of Matty and for possibly Edmund's murder. Ned, at some point, intuits that Matty is somehow still alive. But everyone denies it because the dental records show up as Matty's. But after receiving Matty's high school yearbook, Ned discovers that Matty's real name is Mary Ann Simpson, which was the name of the young woman (Kim Zimmer) who looked a lot like Matty shown earlier in the movie and who purportedly witnessed the phony will. Matty was the name of the girl posing as Mary Ann Simpson. Which means that it was the girl posing as Mary Ann Simpson (Zimmer), not Matty (Turner), whose burned body was found after the boathouse exploded. The movie ends with Matty/Mary Ann Simpson (Turner) on a tropical beach.
Big Evil
Ned: I need someone to take care of me, someone to rub my tired muscles, smooth out my sheets.
Matty: Get married.
Ned: I just need it for tonight.
Trivia: Teddy Lewis tells Ned that "Matty" had him show her how to rig up a explosive with a delay to a door. So in theory Matty could have opened the door and escaped unscathed.
Question: Maddy pulls up to the house in her dead husband's Cadillac right around the time Ned was supposed to be at the boat house. Why would she be driving his car when at that point in time, she is supposed to be Mary Ann Simpson, her real identity? Ned was supposed to be dead at that point. The boat house could have blown up as she arrived and the fire dept. called by a neighbor would be on its way?
Answer: It was all part of the plan to frame Ned, she purposely left clues behind as Ned would become suspicious of her. In the end, the dead body of the real Mary Ann Simpson was already in the houseboat. Thus everyone would think she's was dead when in fact she in sunning on a tropical beach.
Answer: Maddie (who was the real Mary Ann Simpson) was deliberately being careless, dropping clues, and creating inconsistencies, like leaving Edmund's eyeglasses behind at the house when they moved his body. It was the same with Edmund's car. She was framing Ned as being the sole murderer who killed both (the real) Maddie and Edmund. She had specifically targeted Ned as her accomplice, knowing he was an incompetent lawyer who was careless about details.
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