Indecent Proposal

Director: Adrian Lyne

1993 / 97min / DCP

Lyne, the doyen of the erotic thriller, created an international popular phenomenon with this drama about two happily married former high school sweethearts turned middle-class strivers, Diana and David Murphy, played by Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson, who take a crapshoot trip to Las Vegas when their finances go south, and are faced with an ultimatum from dashing high-roller Robert Redford: one million much-needed dollars to the couple for one night with Diana. Moore’s performance does much to invest the film with a “genuine romantic spirit” [Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times] with valuable assists coming courtesy Seymour Cassel as Gage’s chauffeur and Oliver Platt as the Murphy’s oleaginous divorce lawyer.