Heat (1986) on Netflix
Nick Escalante is a Las Vegas bodyguard saving to move to Venice. A rich young client hires him for company, and his friend Holly's beating puts him against a high roller.
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Plot summary
A former soldier of fortune, Nick Escalante is lethal with his hands and expert with sharp objects. In Las Vegas he advertises as a chaperone but works as a bodyguard for hire, and his aim is to earn enough to move to Venice, Italy. A meek, wealthy young man named Cyrus Kinnick approaches him, saying he wants company while he gambles, though what he really seeks is instruction in toughness. Nick's friend Holly, a prostitute, is badly beaten on a date with high roller Danny DeMarco, and Nick agrees to help her get even. Nick turns to Baby, a crime boss he knows in the city, for a way into the hotel suite where DeMarco is staying.
Cast
- Joanne Jacksonas Millicent
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Heat (1986)
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- Robert Altman took the job of directing Heat after Carol Burnett encouraged him to work with Burt Reynolds, but his biographer said he detested William Goldman's script; Altman then used a technicality, his cinematographer Pierre Mignot could not get permits, to get out of the movie.
- Director Dick Richards sued Burt Reynolds for $25 million and Reynolds was ordered to pay $500,000 in damages; Reynolds said in a 1996 interview, "I spent $500,000 for that punch."
- Robert Altman's relationship with Elliot Kastner inspired a line in Altman's film The Player, where executive Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher) passes Burt Reynolds playing himself and says, "I hope there are no hard feelings. I was only working for Kastner at the time." Kastner called it Altman "getting back at me, but I enjoyed it very much."
- William Goldman called Heat "one of my major disasters," with a record six directors toiling on what was only a thirty-six-day shoot.
- Burt Reynolds hit director Dick Richards during Heat, so Richards left and was replaced by Jerry Jameson; Richards later came back only to fall from a camera crane and end up in the hospital.
- A Directors Guild of America arbitration ruled that Dick Richards was responsible for 41% of the finished Heat and Jerry Jameson 31%.
