Indecent Proposal [Region 2] | ![Indecent Proposal [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519J1TYW3ML._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Adrian Lyne
Actors: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel, Oliver Platt
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Format: PAL
Languages: German (Original Language), English (Original Language), English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Arabic (Subtitled), Bulgarian (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Romanian (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Turkish (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: P450313
EAN: 4010884503135
ASIN: B0000694RS
Theatrical Release Date: April 7, 1993
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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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 Well, who wouldn't want to sleep with Robert Redford back then January 15, 2010
kittykins (boston, ma)
before he started looking like a piece of wrinkly burnt toast..he's got so much money,get a face lift, Bob. Anyway, no one brought up the fact that the young yuppy couple already had a house, ok, maybe it wasen't in an upscale, over looking the ocean neighborhood, but, it looked cozy enough for two. But, that's the problem isn't it, not willing to wait and work for something you really want. No, instant gratification's the way to go. Frankly, the young couple didn't deserve any sympathy, not from me anyway.
 Indecent Proposal January 5, 2010
Arnita D. Brown (USA)
A struggling yuppie couple is offered $1,000,000 to let another man sleep with the wife. Adrian Lyne brings us a movie about a desperate couple in need of money. A millionaire offers the couple a million dollars for one night with the wife. This is a movie everyone seems to know about. Its a classic movie. The actors give great performance. I enjoyed it. Somethings are not for sale.
 IT'S EVIL! October 10, 2009
ICED COFFEE
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think the point of this movie is how evil it is sell oneself for sex. Demi Moore's character is an evil harlot, her husband isn't very bright & Gage is evil too. But this movie is great at illustrating what happens when people fall for Satan's false promises so it's a very good movie. People like these characters that don't repent are going to hell!
Author of the Novel Supports the Movie August 2, 2009
jack engelhard
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
People keep asking if I'm okay with Paramount's rendering of my novel "Indecent Proposal" (ComteQ Publishing, Paperback). After all, a number of changes took place from my page to Hollywood's screen -- and, it is customary for the novelist to be fashionably upset at Hollywood. But I'm happy with the result.
Liberties were taken. This is true. But the main elements of my novel were kept intact -- temptation, sin, regret, redemption, forgiveness. In other words, Hollywood skimmed the surface, but with glamour.
After all, the billionaire (in the novel) is an Arab sultan, and the couple he tempts and traps, well, the guy is Jewish and his wife is high-class Gentile, somewhat like Grace Kelly. You'd expect Omar Sharif for starters, not Robert Redford.
In her review of the MOVIE for The New York Times, Janet Maslin paid tribute to the theme of the book and the movie as being "powerfully seductive." I'm okay with this and I'm okay with the Times' Sunday review of the BOOK (originally published in 1989), which, in part, runs as follows:
Of a "Jewish writer and gambler, who makes a bargain with the Devil (a handsome oil-rich billionaire.) The struggle between these two embraces a number of primal issues, the sanctity of marriage versus the love of money, the Jew versus significant non-Jews such as shiksas and sheiks, skill versus luck, materialism versus spirituality, Israel versus the Arab countries, the past versus the future, and the religious world versus the secular one."
Times' BOOK revieweer Barbara Raskin goes on to say, "In precise, almost clinical language, Mr. Engelhard tracks the changes Joshua [Kane] and Joan go through after receiving their ungodly offer. Suspicion, jealousy, anger, second guessing, pain and fear begin to torment them as they struggle with his and hers temptations -- It's her body and his soul on the line."
I believe that the movie captures all that, though yes, for the conflicts in politics and culture and for the depths of emotions there is always and still the book. That does not change. A novelist's task is to find the human heart. Hollywood is about box office.
Surely I would have cast it differently and surely I would have been happier if Hollywood had stuck to my novel as is. But Hollywood is seldom completely true to the novel ("Gone With The Wind" a notable exception) and I understand why. One art form is about pictures, the other is about words.
Beethoven would not dare tell Picasso how to paint his Third Symphony. Each artist, in his own medium, must be allowed to find his own vision. This is obvious but it must be said, a movie is a movie and a book is a book and both have their challenges and their merits.
Yes, when I dealt with these "primal issues" I was surprised that the title roles would be taken by Redford, Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson. If I had qualms, these were dispelled at the grand opening when it struck me that all this stardom and a $40 to $50 million budget all happened from words I wrote on the kitchen table.
(I have this notion that we all face temptations every day, some big, some small. This one, on love and money, is big.)
I am always ready for people to knock the movie. People do this for a reason, which I will explain at a later time, perhaps in a blog. I have a theory about this. I was lucky with the reviews of the book. The Times' wrote: "Is this book fun to read? You betcha." The same goes for the movie, now especially in this Blu-Ray format.
Thank you for listening -- Jack Engelhard, the authorIndecent Proposal
If you ever want something badly, let it go July 6, 2009
C. CRADDOCK (Bakersfield)
Indecent Proposal is an example of a whole film based on one old joke. The joke is a man asks a woman if she will make love with him for a million dollars.
"OK," she says.
Then he says "how about five bucks and a candy bar?"
"What kind of girl do you think I am," milady protests.
"We've already established that. Now we're haggling over price."
Rim shot.
But seriously, this is another score for director Adrian Lyne. I think this movie is often parodied, but only because it really struck a chord for the viewing public. It has achieved icon status. You could argue that the characters are two dimensional, cardboard cut-outs, but actually, they are fleshed out adequately enough to make this movie work.
I like Demi Moore as Real Estate Agent Diana Murphy in this. She is kind of feisty, but then she can also be vulnerable. She made a very convincing Real Estate Agent, too. Woody Harrelson is a little harder to buy as an architect, but he made it work.
Robert Redford as the millionaire John Gage was very good. He was sort of Trumpesque, but without the bizarre comb over. This role was similar to when he played The Great Gatsby, but instead of Daisy, he is after Diana, or Demi.
When he first makes the Indecent Proposal to David and Diana he brings up an interesting point:
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John: Suppose... I were to offer you one million dollars for one night with your wife.
David: I'd assume you're kidding.
John: Let's pretend I'm not. What would you say?
Diana: He'd tell you to go to hell.
John: I didn't hear him.
David: I'd tell you to go to hell.
John: That's a reflex answer because you view the question as hypothetical. But let's say that there was real money backing it up. I'm not kidding. A million dollars. The night would come and go but the money could last a lifetime. Think of it. A million dollars. A lifetime of security... for one night. Don't answer right away. Just consider it; seriously?
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Indecent Proposal plays the hypothetical game of What If? well, stacking the deck, making it seem like a great deal, making it seem like an easy way out of all of your money problems.
But just remember Murphy's Law, David Murphy: Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.
Along with all the great architecture and real estate, look for cameos and supporting roles by Oliver Platt, Billy Bob Thornton, Rip Taylor, and Billy Connolly. Rip Taylor is a scream as Diana Moore's broker. John Gage really shows he has a lot of class when you see the pianist he has hired to serenade Diana. None other than Herbie Hancock!
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Diana: If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.
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A Scanner Darkly (2006) .... Woody Harrelson was Ernie Luckman
Play it to the Bone (1999) .... Woody Harrelson was Vince Boudreau
Striptease (Unrated International Edition) (1996) .... Demi Moore was Erin Grant
The Scarlet Letter (1995) .... Demi Moore was Hester Prynne
Natural Born Killers (1994) .... Woody Harrelson was Mickey Knox
Fatal Attraction (1987).... Directed by Adrian Lyne
9 1/2 Weeks (1986).... Directed by Adrian Lyne
Flashdance (1983).... Directed by Adrian Lyne
The Electric Horseman (1979) .... Robert Redford was Norman 'Sonny' Steele
The Great Gatsby (1974) .... Robert Redford was Jay Gatsby
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Diana: The dress is for sale. I'm not.
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