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Directed by Michie Gleason
USA 1987

 

Anything can happen in the heat of the moment…even murder…in this steamy romantic drama starring Lori Singer (Footloose, The Falcon and the Snowman), Anthony Edwards (Gotcha!, Miracle Mile) and Bruce Abbott (Re-Animator, Bad Dreams). The year: 1937. The place: North Carolina’s tobacco country. Lovely 21-year-old Roxy (Singer), isolated on an impoverished farm far from town, minds the baby, minds her husband (Edwards)…and tries not to mind the loneliness. Then one hot summer day a good-looking drifter (Abbott) shows up and sparks in Roxy a passion she’d never known. Who could have known a desire so sweet would lead to murder? With fine supporting turns by Kathy Bates (Misery, Titanic) and Clu Gulager (A Force of One, The Return of the Living Dead), Summer Heat is an intimate, noir-tinged love story with a gorgeously detailed Depression-era backdrop.

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Set in the late 1930's, the young wife of a Southern tobacco farmer falls in love with a handsome hired hand, pushing her marriage to the brink of destruction.

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Theatrical Release: May 29th, 1987

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Review: Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray

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Distribution Kino - Region 'A' - Blu-ray
Runtime 1:20:46.716        
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1.85:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 22,766,156,688 bytes

Feature: 20,446,156,800 bytes

Video Bitrate: 30.41 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

NOTE: The Vertical axis represents the bits transferred per second. The Horizontal is the time in minutes.
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DTS-HD Master Audio English 1589 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1589 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles English, None
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Studio: Kino

 

1.85:1 1080P Single-layered Blu-ray

Disc Size: 22,766,156,688 bytes

Feature: 20,446,156,800 bytes

Video Bitrate: 30.41 Mbps

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video

 

Edition Details:

• Radio Spot (0:34)
• Theatrical Trailer (1:56)


 Blu-ray Release Date: August 30th, 2022
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Chapters 9

 

 

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ADDITION: Kino Blu-ray (August 2022): Kino have transferred Michie Gleason's Summer Heat to Blu-ray. It is on a single-layered disc with a high bitrate for the 1-hour 20-minute film. The 80's film stock 'look' is here - with rough textures, but detail and colors appear positive in 1080P. There is depth in the visuals and the countryside - shot in North Carolina - is appealing. It looks good - not great - but probably the best the film will be rendered on digital. A far leap from it's VHS days.

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On their Blu-ray, Kino use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel track (24-bit) in the original English language. Summer Heat has no aggressive conflicts - a murder is briefly described in a flashback - there is a less-remarkable score credited to Richard Stone and Summer Heat has Kim Carnes singing the 'theme'; The Heart Must Have a Home by Georges Delerue (Women in Love, A Gorgeous Girl Like Me, Shoot the Piano Player, Jules et Jim, The Last Metro, Day For Night) and Barry Mann. Nothing really tests the lossless and the film's sound comes through consistent and clean. Kino offer optional English subtitles on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

The Kino Blu-ray is pretty much bare-bones with only a radio spot and trailer.

Summer Heat has sultry Lori Singer, boring Anthony Edwards and hunky Bruce Abbott but would have benefited from more Kathy Bates and Clu Gulager. I think it's a sexy flic with latter thriller elements - but can come across a shade superficially. Director Michie Gleason (who also wrote it from Louise Shivers novel, Here to Get My Baby Out of Jail) - doesn't have a lot of credits (3 films written/directed) but she was assistant to the director/producer on Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven. I thought there was a lot to enjoy about Summer Heat, although movie history remembers it unfavorably. The Kino Blu-ray is 28% OFF at the writing of this review and there is certainly the potential for some 80's nostalgia with comely Singer and the film's VHS-vibe.

Gary Tooze

 

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