Indecent Proposal

Starring:Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel, Oliver Platt, Billy Bob Thornton, Rip Taylor, Billy Connolly, Joel Brooks, Pierre Epstein, Danny Zorn, Kevin West, Pamela Holt, Tommy Bash, Mariclare Costello, Curt Odle, Jedda Jones, Myra J., Edwonda White, James Migliore
Director: Adrian Lyne
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD

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One of the biggest teases in film history, this film's sensational plot finds a young wife (Demi Moore) solicited for sex by a wealthy bachelor (Robert Redford), for which the latter offers to pay a cool million bucks to her and her underachieving husband (Woody Harrelson). The two accept Redford's deal, and their marriage is ruined. The twist in the film, though, is that the sin doesn't lie with the rich guy, but rather with this unfocused, immature, equivocating couple who would do such a thing, naively believing it would get their lives on track. Director Adrian Lyne, who caused an even greater stir by filming Lolita (the one starring Jeremy Irons), thus pulls a kind of thinking person's bait and switch, promising something tawdry and then turning the story around so its focus is on a rite of passage for the estranged spouses. Still, Lyne has some peculiarly garish ideas at times: the final disposition of that million dollars is like a joke out of Monty Python. --Tom Keogh

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Product Review.......2007-01-15

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Not Lyne's Best.......2006-06-27

In another provocative, erotic film; Adrian Lyne brings up a difficult question. Can money buy anything? This movie could've been done in several ways and the way that it's done is not the best of those ways. As far as entertainment value and brief shots of Demi Moore naked, this movie is pretty good. But some of the decisions, reactions, and some of the things that happen in this movie make it a little bit too silly for 4 stars. The movie stars Demi Moore ('Charlies Angels: Full Throttle') and Woody Harrelson ('The People Vs. Larry Flynt') as a happily married couple named Diana and David. Diana and David are perfect for each other and are very happy, but are down on their luck and having serious money problems. So one night, in the middle of the night, David comes up with a great idea. Go to Las Vegas with 5000 dollars and turn it into 50,000 dollars. Yeah, that's a great idea. You're about to lose your house, but still...Try your luck. Anyway, David and Diana go to Vegas and are lucky for a while but end up losing all their money. Distraught and on their way home, they run into a billionaire named John Gage (Robert Redford, 'All the Presidents Men'). After hanging out with Gage for a while, Gage gives the couple the ultimate indecent proposal.
One night with Diana, one million dollars. David and Diana go with the immediate reaction, which is no, but suddenly they're dealing with what everyone would go through in a situation like that. Reluctantly, both David and Diana agree to it; Diana goes off with Gage, but David is suddenly stricken with instant regret. When she gets back, giving David no details of what occured, it's hard to return things to normal. Anyway, I've covered more than an hour of the movie; So, I'll stop. All the actors are good;
Redford is perfect as John Gage, Demi Moore adds the right touch of innocence and sexiness to her role, and Woody Harrelson is massively understated. As I said, the movie is entertaining but so many stupid things happen...It's hard for me to give it a high rating. The revelation Redford makes at the end of the movie is one of the lamest ways to give an excuse to end the movie I've seen lately. Oliver Platt co-stars as David and Diana's lawyer and Billy Bob Thornton makes a hilarious cameo.

GRADE: C+

A good start that stranded in the middle of the storm! .......2006-06-08

The spirit of the tragedy has been slow but progressively demolished and even confiscated since the XVII Century. Since these ages, the tragedy has suffered a visible process of perverse distortion, becoming just a moral lesson to follow. Jean Anouilh, Jean Paul Sartre, Joyce, Selma Lagerloff, Albert Camus, Fedor Dostoievsky, Eugene O Neill, Giovanni Papini, Ionesco, Beckett, William Faulkner, Ernst Hemingway, August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen are weird exceptions, but in general terms, the cathartic experience derived from the tragic ethos, has vanished.

So, if you dissect the tragedy into fragments of moral lessons, you just are telling a fable, but nothing else. You simply have frozen the wrath of Gods into hermeneutic pills, in order to satisfy the great audiences and so guarantee them, a final return to their respective homes. But the soul has not suffered the expected shock, and the spirit has not experienced the sharpness of the contrasts: long life to triviality. In the tragedy there are not good guys or bad guys; there' s no one absolutely innocent; the tragedy is the violation and transgression of a rule related with the cosmic order. It's impossible to understand in its wholeness, the force of its significance if you do not look it under the mythic coordinates.

The film starts with an interesting dilemma to solve what if?. The corrosive and nasty feature represented by Redford , may be considered as the Devil' s embodiment. The proposal was made and accepted. But once the dramatic peak has been reached, one can feel how the film precipitates obstreperously, the expected reactions fall in a well know stereotyped cliche; she cries and is in shame; he looks arrogant but then the character becomes a marionette.

A false redemption works out as the final launch, that will allow them to understand one each other and the forgiveness will hover about them.

This material really did not deserve such predictable final. In hands of Robert van Akeren (The woman in flames), for instance the result would have been absolutely different; there is a lot of self indulgence not only for the characters and the audience in general.

wow what a decent movie demi is worth every dollar of a million .......2006-05-18

this is a good movie one of the best in the 90s woody harrison and demi moore are both amazing in this film they are lower class couples who are trying to win some money so woody harrison could live his dream of being an building designer the movie also has robert redford who plays a wealthy man who is single and is looking for love one night woody and demi went to the casino to win so money but they were lucky tonight they lost all of their money they were both looking at other people winning their money when robert redford saw demi he asked woody if he could borrow her for a moment woody thought that he wanted to go on a date with her it was not the case not yet anyway he wanted to use demi for luck so he could win more money demi was nervous because she knew he was a very rich man he thought her to relax the first game they lost however if i am not wrong she made robert win some money the second time indecent proposal has features billy bob before his was mr. hollywood in his 1996 film sling blade he was there for a short amount of time in the movie the movie develops into a triangle love story between robet, woody, and demi when w and d talked about their finanical problems to woody when they were at his pin house playing pool robert gave them a suggestion he said i can solve all ur money problems sounds good but there was a catch he wanted to spent one night with demi moore if woody let robert spent one night wif demi he would win one million dollars this was clearly a difficult decision for the both of them woody asked robert if he could have some time to think about it robert said of course when robert and demi spent the entire night thinking about what they should do demi said if she spent one night with robert then get the money it would help them to pay the bills build a bigger and better looking house woody kind of wanted the money but he did not enjoy the proposal of robert redford sleeping with his wife i don't blame that is y i guess this money is indecent proposal they both decide to let robert sleep with her woody took demi to robert's place where he told them to go on top of the roof because a helicopter was waiting for them the helicopter was taking them to distant area where his private boat would take the two of them with his workers in the middle of the sea while robert and demi were together for the night woody was back at home losing his mind he didn't know what to do a day later demi came back to him safe and sound but this one night changed both of their lives not for the good but for the bad woody was more concern about what did demi do with robert instead of receving the million dollars eventually they both had a fight which resutlted to both of them having to separate for each other halfway into the movie there was a greedy divorce lawyer who was kind of funny because neither of them wanted the million dollars so he said could he have it after they separated demi went back to robert who told her a little story of a lady that was similar to demi the story that he told her made her stay with him for a little while at the end of the movie there was an auction taking place outside demi and robert were both at the auction and so was woody he missed demi he saw both have them having fun at the auction the auctioner asked how much money will this person pay for this final picture people who saying in the thousands but woody said ONE MILLION DOLLARS everyone became silent stared at woody and so gave him a standing ovation what woody did made demi come back to him a couples of days left they both reunite inside a shade house at the beach they made up and were announced house and bride again woody rekiss his wife and that is how the movie happily ends the mellowly sound helped the movie close perfectly jb

A Razzie "winner".......2006-04-30

A brainless, predictable soap opera with some of the most laughably bad dialogue I have ever heard. This is easily the most embarrasing "serious" film I have seen and is argued to be one of the worst films of all time (the film "won" several Razzies, including Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay). Adrian Lyne -- whose credits as a director alternate between the interesting and the unpleasant/sleazy -- directs this movie as if it were a shampoo commercial.

A woman (Demi Moore) and her whiny, annoying husband (Razzie recipient Woody Harrelson, who unfortunately disappoints) are in a state of financial crisis. Because the couple is, well, spoiled and none-too-bright, they go to Las Vegas with the intention of winning money in order to buy their dream house. Their plan fails, and I personally did not care because neither character is especially sympathetic. Along comes Robert Redford, who offers them 1 million dollars in return for sex with Moore. Then, the marriage collapses in emotional turmoil and numerous bad scenes play out (including a curious one in which a classroom of immigrants learning English from Moore miraculously understand English all of a sudden and laugh at a bunch of jokes told by Redford).

The story is trashy and sleazy, and there's not one sympathetic character in the bunch. The seasoned Redford has some good moments, but even he cannot save the picture. Overall, this is a Razzie "classic," to say the least, and it contains one of the most laughably bad lines I've ever heard in a film: "I really wanted you to have that hippo." (note: If you are now wondering how a hippo ties into the film, I advise you to not bother giving it any thought).

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Not Lyne's Best
A good start that stranded in the middle of the storm!
wow what a decent movie demi is worth every dollar of a million
A Razzie "winner"

Indecent Proposal [Region 2]
Starring: Robert Redford , Demi Moore , Woody Harrelson , Seymour Cassel , and Oliver Platt
Director: Adrian Lyne
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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