1993
Starring: Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Seymour Cassel, Oliver Platt
Director: Adrian Lyne
Runtime: 117 Minutes
Distributor: Paramount Pictures
Rating: R

Much in the way the Basic instinct the previous year had Sharon Stone uncrossing her legs and the whole world hitting the pause button to the exclusion of everything else in the movie, Indecent Proposal was a film that rode to success on a single, solitary aspect of itself – the premise. The oh-so nineties idea of a down-on-their-luck couple, David and Diana (Harrelson and Moore), facing financial ruin offered a lifeline by a billionaire industrialist John Gage (Redford) whereby he will pay them $1 million for on night with her put the question to couples all over the world – what would you do? In a time before the Internet and our tabloid culture had erased the word taboo from our vocabulary this became dinner-party catnip for the sexually repressed masses.

But while this simple tale of true love and sanitized prostitution marketed itself as a couple’s movie this is a flick aimed squarely at the ladies. A vicarious piece of candy-coated wish-fulfillment whereby the hunky billionaire and her suitably tenacious true love duke it out for her affections while a million middle-aged gals in frumpy nightgowns and curlers lean over to henpecked husbands and ask: “What if it were me?”

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