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Bookmark this pageThe Proposition (1998)
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
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From Time Out Film Guide
Boston, 1935: a lawyer (Hurt) discovers he's infertile and proposes to pay a law student (Harris) to impregnate his novelist wife (Stowe). Still without child and on the brink of a major family scandal, the wife seeks solace with the student's uncle, Fr McKinnon (Branagh, miscast), their friendship swiftly developing into a liaison. This flimsy exploration of sexual surrogacy and East Coast materialism between the wars is not improved by director Glatter (remember the syrupy Now and Then?) coating each scene with tacky glamour.Author: HK
Cast & crew
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Producer: Ted Field, Diane Nabatoff, Scott Kroopf
Cast: Kenneth Branagh, Madeleine Stowe, William Hurt, Neil Patrick Harris, Robert Loggia, Blythe Danner, Josef Sommer full cast
Duration: 111 mins
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