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Body of Evidence is a 1993 erotic thriller film directed by Uli Edel, written by Brad Mirman, and starring Madonna and Willem Dafoe, with Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Julianne Moore, and Jrgen Prochnow in supporting roles.
Widely considered to be a vanity project for Madonna and derided for its plot inconsistencies and incongruous dialogue, it marked her fourth film performance to be universally panned by critics, following Shanghai Surprise, Who's That Girl, and Bloodhounds of Broadway.[4]
The elderly and wealthy Andrew Marsh dies from complications stemming from an erotic incident involving bondage and homemade pornography. The main suspect is his lover Rebecca Carlson who proclaims her innocence to lawyer Frank Dulaney. Initially believing her, Frank agrees to represent her.
District Attorney Robert Garrett seeks to prove that Rebecca deliberately killed Marsh in bed to receive the $8 million he left her in his will. As the trial begins, Rebecca and Frank enter a sadomasochistic sexual relationship behind the back of Frank's unsuspecting wife, Sharon.
After an ex-lover of Rebecca's, Jeffrey Roston, testifies that he also had a heart condition, and both changed his will to favour Rebecca, and that she was sexually domineering and compelled him to engage in sexual activity with no regard to his health, describing an incident that clearly resonates with Frank's own experience, Frank attempts to end their affair.
Sharon confronts him about the affair having figured it out from a phone call with Rebecca as well as the strange marks on his body from the hot wax. Frank goes to Rebecca's home and accuses her of telling his wife about them (although Sharon says she worked it out from her tone alone). Rebecca taunts Frank, and he pushes her to the ground. Rebecca begins to masturbate on the floor in front of him. Rebecca pulls out handcuffs, Frank forcibly cuffs her hands instead and sexually assaults her. Initially she resists before appearing to enjoy the assault.
Footage from Marsh's home video reveals that he had an affair with his secretary, Joanne Braslow, who is a key witness against Rebecca. He also had previously left Joanne more money in his will before beginning his relationship with Rebecca. She says that she was hurt but she loved him and would never hurt him. However, there is evidence that she bought the murder weapon. Rebecca suggests to Frank that the secretary tried to frame her, but he is now less sure of her innocence in the crime.
Rebecca takes the stand and her surprising testimony that Roston had an affair with another man convinces the jury, which acquits her. Before leaving court, she mockingly thanks Frank and indicates that she is guilty after all.
Frank still cannot resist going to Rebecca's home, where he overhears an incriminating conversation between her and Marsh's doctor, Alan Paley. He confronts the co-conspirators, realizing that it was Paley who supplied the fatal dose of cocaine. Rebecca is amused by Frank's discovery of her manipulating him, but Paley is shocked to learn that she was in a sexual relationship with Frank as well. Rebecca mocks both men, bluntly acknowledging that she used her sexual prowess to control and humiliate both of them, as well as Marsh. Paley realizes she does not care about him and becomes enraged.
Body of Evidence was filmed in Portland, Oregon, with the Pittock Mansion serving as a primary location.[5] The cemetery scene featured in the beginning of the film was shot on location at Lone Fir Cemetery.[6]
Julianne Moore said her nude scene in this movie was "just awful": "I was too young to know better. It was the first time I'd been asked to get naked and it turned out to be completely extraneous and gratuitous."[7]
Body of Evidence performed poorly at the box office.[8] In its second week it experienced a 60% drop.[9] It grossed $13 million in the United States and Canada and $25 million internationally for a worldwide total of $38 million.[3]
The film originally received the rare NC-17 rating from the Motion Picture Association of America.[10] The first theatrical release was censored for the purpose of obtaining an R rating, reducing the film's running time from 101 to 99 minutes.[11] The video premiere, however, restored the deleted material.
Body of Evidence has an 8% rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 38 reviews, with a rating average of 3.10/10. The critical consensus reads, "Body of Evidence's sex scenes may be kinky, but the ludicrous concept is further undone by the ridiculous dialogue."[12] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 29 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[13] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "C" on scale of A+ to F.[14] The film appeared on the 2005 list of Roger Ebert's most hated films.[15] The screenplay and performances were especially disparaged.[16] His colleague Gene Siskel called Body of Evidence a "stupid and empty thriller" that is worse than her softcore coffee table book Sex.[17]
An expert may testify about scientific knowledge that assists the jury in understanding the evidence or determining a fact in issue in the case. Factors that a judge should consider include whether the theory or technique in question can be and has been tested, whether it has been subjected to peer review and publication, its known or potential error rate, the existence and maintenance of standards controlling its operation, and whether it is widely accepted in the relevant scientific community.
Petitioners, two minor children and their parents, alleged intheir suit against respondent that the children's serious birthdefects had been caused by the mothers' prenatal ingestion ofBendectin, a prescription drug marketed by respondent. The DistrictCourt granted respondent summary judgment based on awell-credentialed expert's affidavit concluding, upon reviewing theextensive published scientific literature on the subject, thatmaternal use of Bendectin has not been shown to be a risk factorfor human birth defects. Although petitioners had responded withthe testimony of eight other well-credentialed experts, who basedtheir conclusion that Bendectin can cause birth defects on animalstudies, chemical structure analyses, and the unpublished"reanalysis" of previously published human statistical studies, thecourt determined that this evidence did not meet the applicable"general acceptance" standard for the admission of experttestimony. The Court of Appeals agreed and affirmed, citingFrye v. United States, 54 App. D. C. 46, 47,293 F.1d13, 1014, for the rule that expert opinion based on ascientific technique is inadmissible unless the technique is"generally accepted" as reliable in the relevant scientificcommunity.
(a) Frye's "general acceptance" test was superseded bythe Rules' adoption. The Rules occupy the field, UnitedStates v. Abel, 469 U. S. 45, 49, and,although the common law of evidence may serve as an aid to theirapplication, id., at 51-52, respondent's assertion that theysomehow assimilated Frye is unconvincing. Nothing in theRules as a whole or in the text and drafting history of Rule 702,which specifically governs expert testimony, gives any indicationthat "general acceptance" is a necessary precondition to theadmissibility of scientific evidence. Moreover, such a rigidstandard would be at odds with the Rules' liberal thrust and theirgeneral approach of relaxing the traditional barriers to "opinion"testimony. Pp. 585-589.
judge the task of ensuring that an expert's testimony both restson a reliable foundation and is relevant to the task at hand. Thereliability standard is established by Rule 702's requirement thatan expert's testimony pertain to "scientific ... knowledge," sincethe adjective "scientific" implies a grounding in science's methodsand procedures, while the word "knowledge" connotes a body of knownfacts or of ideas inferred from such facts or accepted as true ongood grounds. The Rule's requirement that the testimony "assist thetrier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact inissue" goes primarily to relevance by demanding a valid scientificconnection to the pertinent inquiry as a precondition toadmissibility. Pp. 589-592.
(c) Faced with a proffer of expert scientific testimony underRule 702, the trial judge, pursuant to Rule 104(a), must make apreliminary assessment of whether the testimony's underlyingreasoning or methodology is scientifically valid and properly canbe applied to the facts at issue. Many considerations will bear onthe inquiry, including whether the theory or technique in questioncan be (and has been) tested, whether it has been subjected to peerreview and publication, its known or potential error rate and theexistence and maintenance of standards controlling its operation,and whether it has attracted widespread acceptance within arelevant scientific community. The inquiry is a flexible one, andits focus must be solely on principles and methodology, not on theconclusions that they generate. Throughout, the judge should alsobe mindful of other applicable Rules. Pp. 592-595.
(d) Cross-examination, presentation of contrary evidence, andcareful instruction on the burden of proof, rather than wholesaleexclusion under an uncompromising "general acceptance" standard, isthe appropriate means by which evidence based on valid principlesmay be challenged. That even limited screening by the trial judge,on occasion, will prevent the jury from hearing of authenticscientific breakthroughs is simply a consequence of the fact thatthe Rules are not designed to seek cosmic understanding but,rather, to resolve legal disputes. Pp.595-597.
BLACKMUN, J., delivered the opinion for a unanimous Court withrespect to Parts I and II-A, and the opinion of the Court withrespect to Parts II-B, II-C, III, and IV, in which WHITE, O'CONNOR,SCALIA, KENNEDY, SOUTER, and THOMAS, JJ., joined. REHNQUIST, C. J.,filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, inwhich STEVENS, J., joined, post, p.598.
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