United States

In the heat of passion, two things can happen - the second is murder! This searing, riveting film scorches along inflaming emotions to a crescendo in a wicked brew of lust and greed. Frank Chambers (JACK NICHOLSON) and Cora Papadakis (JESSICA LANGE) are compelled by agonizing passions they can neither control nor completely understand, to become lovers with savage intensity. With frenzied and reckless desperation, they plot to murder Cora's husband Nick (JOHN COLICOS); there are no other solutions to their inflamed desires. This film is erotic, but the emphasis is on people, their feelings, their ambitions, their conflicts - not merely sexual obsession.