Indecent Proposal (1993)

Very thought provoking :-)

Would you or wouldn't you?
I really enjoyed this movie (although I found it did drag a little in some places), and it really gets you thinking. Of course, you probably know the story line by now but it's something you have to see. It was done well, and the acting wasn't bad; it was the moral delema that I found interesting. As much as David and Dianna loved each other, when they were backed up against a wall with no money whatsoever, along comes John Gage to 'save the day'. They had to know it wouldn't end well and even though they were fine for a while after the event, before long, the mistrust and regrets started up and eventually led them to go separate ways. I won't give up the ending; I thought it ended well and almost wished it kept going to see how they lived after it all.
A really enjoyable film that I watch every now and then. I really love Woody Harelson in this. He was brilliant I thought and the best actor in this movie. See it for yourself and I hope you enjoy it too. May 31, 2008

Seems pretty decent now.

Indecent Proposal was a shocking film for 1993 but if this film was released now, people wouldn't think much of it. Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson portray a young, broke but very much in love married couple who decide to try their luck in Vegas. Robert Redford plays a wealthy, smug man who offers the couple 1 million dollars if he can have one night with his wife, she says yes and the couple's relationship is forever tested. This film appears to be provocative but it falls short, I just couldn't get into this film, very boring and calculated. Skip this one, it's not that steamy. May 24, 2008

about wealth

amazingly objective... love is the greatest wealth on earth and poor is the man who is in lack of it... this experience had to be eternized... March 28, 2008

enjoyed watching it

I've been wanting to see the Indecent Proposal movie for a long time and i finally bought it from amazon and got to see it and i actually liked it .
I did not like that they made a bad decision but the ending was a nice one. Will watch it again. February 15, 2008

"Money Can't Buy Me Love..."

If ever a song came to mind that a suited a film so aptly, it would be The Beatles "Money Can't Buy Me Love". This Adrian Lyne directed/Sherry Lansing adapted freely from the John Engelhard novel vacillates from insipid melodrama to thriller to moralistic rhetoric and so on.The film starts with a silly guffaw and end with a tearful,hand-holding whimper that suggests of LOVE STORY'S Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neill stating "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
The idea that comes from Englehard's novel is indeed novel:Would you be willing to, for one evening, "sell yourself" for a million dollars and be able to wipe your mind of the deed the morning after? In this case, the decision involves a couple (Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore),married and very much in love, who are deeply in debt,who are offered the "way out" by agreeing mutually to have her spend one night with the rich John Gage (Robert Redford). The moral and psychological grounds that the novel and film tread are interesting ones that do cause honest pause for reflection for even the most sanctimonious of people.The questions are begged,"Can the money be taken,can you feel good about it, and can you go on unchanged?".These are all really great and compelling questions and this is the foundation upon which this film is built.The problem though is that the film never truly commits itself totally to these questions and the destructive results that follow.The film plods terribly for the first hour only to reach some measure of tension and then release with a sigh that leaves for total dissatisfaction with the entire project.
Lyne and Lansing brought to the screen FATAL ATTRACTION that nearly had everyone checking their elevators and stove-tops! This film approaches none of the drama and tension that FATAL ATTRACTION had.Still, the interesting concepts are there, but the credit for that must go to the novelist who first penned the idea.Lyne does little to nothing with it.The acting is pretty stiff and the dialogue is full of so many cliche lines that it becomes an exercise in triviality.The John Barry soundtrack is....well what can one say but...John Barry;slow,based on the same four chords in the exact same sequence that all his scores contain.One viewing will suffice with significant fast forwards through meaningless bedroom scenes . September 25, 2007

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