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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 18802
Released: December 3, 2002 |
| Our Price: $5.99 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Grammy® and Golden Globe® winner Madonna stars with Oscar® nominees* Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer and Julianne Moore in this "bold, shocking and titillating" ("Entertainment Tonight Radio") erotic thriller. Rebecca Carlson (Madonna) is a powerful woman. Intelligent, successful and breathtakingly beautiful, she can bring almost any man to his knees. And that's exactly where she wants them. But when a night of sexual abandon ends in the death of a prominent businessman, Rebecca finds herself on trial for murder. Now it's up to her attorney (Dafoe) to proveher innocence...but when he becomes entangled in her web of erotic game-playing, his body of evidence begins to contain as many curves as his client. *Dafoe: Supporting Actor, Shadow of the Vampire (2000); Platoon (1986); Archer: Supporting Actress, Fatal Attraction (1987); Moore: Actress, The End of the Affair (1999); Supporting Actress, Boogie Nights (1997); Supporting Actress, The Hours (2002); Actress, Far From Heaven (2002)
Description of Body of Evidence (Unrated):
Madonna isn't merely the prime suspect in the scandalous murder of a millionaire with kinky appetites; she's the murder weapon itself in this erotic thriller in the Basic Instinct mode. The art gallery owner by day and icy-blond dominatrix by night is accused of, shall we say, "loving" her victim to death, and Willem Dafoe is the happily married lawyer she lures into the dark thrills of pleasure and pain. The actual mystery is perfunctory at best and the absurd courtroom theatrics a mere formality in a film far more fascinated with sweaty sex, hot wax, and broken glass. Madonna isn't shy about her body and seems to enjoy the games her character plays, but she's no Sharon Stone; there's no danger smoldering behind her seduction. Like her notorious book Sex, this is a handsomely shot work of pure exhibitionism. --Sean Axmaker
Body of Evidence (Unrated) Reviews:
Madonna as a Lethal Weapon ( A Tragedy ) ? 
2009-10-11 - This is not quite a "who done it ?" mystery and it is not a parody of the genre so it should get some artistic credit for looking somewhat like that kind of movie. It is produced to be a little dark. It begins with some skin and that skin quickly turns out to be "cause of death" but is it murder ? A lot of people want to know and the answer is not clear. There is an ongoing investigation that gets all tangled up with more sex in unusual places. There is passion, betrayal and cover-up ! Is there a "good guy" in all of this ? Forget that Madonna shows some skin. Forget that her behavior is risquee. What's new ? She's a smart cookie and that comes through in her character. In the end, is she smart enough? You be the judge.
Drama/Murder Mystery or low grade Porn Flick Strike three on both 
2009-07-19 - I rated this a one since there are no lower ratings.
What is right about this movie? Nothing.
What is wrong?
1) Children in a 4th grade play has better acting skills.
2) Is it a Murder Mystery or a Low grade Porn flick. It is both and neither. It struck out on both.
3) DO NOT let your children watch this movie. If you want to enjoy a good Murder mystery or a Porn flick pick other titles.
Basic Reject
2009-03-21 - Memo to Madonna: Try as you might, you're no Sharon Stone or Marlene Dietrich (who shot down the Material Girl's proposed remake of "The Blue Angel"). Furthermore, how did Willem Dafoe and Joe Mantegna get stuck in this turkey? "Body of Evidence" belongs in the top tier of any Madonna Bad Film Festival.
Madonna's acting abilty and body recall a very short, square piece of cement
2009-02-22 - Sexless and depressing. Madonna's attempts to beat Sharon Stone as big screen sex early 90's goddess are about as lethal as last week's lettuce. madonna does not seem to get that sex symbols are built like hourglasses not boys on steroids. You also have to not be self consciousness to be sexual on screen which is all she radiates. madonna, not surprisingly, makes a terrible porn star! Rent Kim Kardashian, Nadine Jansen or Danni Ashe unless you are into watching men on steroids with bleached hair fake orgasms and play with melted candles.
Basic Instinct that stinks
2007-10-05 - This film seems to be a divorce gift from Madonna to Sean Penn. After hot tempered fits of bondage and domination fueled by alcohol split their marriage up, she still claimed to love him. Madonna monotones her lines as she strips to keep us guessing, Did she do the murder or not? William Dafoe snarls, grimmaces and shouts as her attorney seduced by her devious games, at times resembling Talman's Hamilton Berger on Perry Mason. If anyone should divorce a cruel partner they should have him or her sentenced to a prison where this is the only film to watch. Like Basic Instinct, but it really stinks and is one of the worst films ever made.
