Indecent Proposal
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| Indecent Proposal | |
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| Directed by | Adrian Lyne |
| Produced by | Sherry Lansing |
| Written by | Jack Engelhard (novel) Amy Holden Jones (screenplay) |
| Starring | Robert Redford Demi Moore Woody Harrelson Seymour Cassel |
| Music by | John Barry |
| Cinematography | Howard Atherton |
| Editing by | Joe Hutshing Julie Monroe (additional editor) |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1993 |
| Running time | 118 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $38,000,000 |
| IMDb profile | |
Indecent Proposal is a 1993 drama directed by Adrian Lyne. It stars Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson and Seymour Cassel. It is based on the novel of the same name by Jack Engelhard.
Childhood sweethearts David and Diana Murphy (Harrelson and Moore) are a married couple that travel to Las Vegas, hoping they can win enough money to finance David's fantasy real estate project. After gambling away all of their savings, they encounter billionaire John Gage (Redford). John becomes enamored with Diana and offers David one million dollars to spend a night with her. After a difficult night, David and Diana decide to accept the offer, and a contract is signed the next day. John flies Diana to a private boat, and it is assumed that their arrangement is consummated.
Although he had hoped to forget the whole incident, David grows increasingly insecure about his relationship with Diana, consumed with a fear that she remains involved with Gage. Because of this tension on their relationship, David and Diana separate. John reappears and renews his advances on Diana. Although she initially resists, Diana eventually consents to spend time with him, and a relationship develops. David, meanwhile, realizes he can't go on without the love of his life. When Diana files for divorce, David makes one final attempt to win her back.
John sees how Diana looks at David and recognizes that, even if she stayed with him, their relationship would never achieve the intensity she had with David. He gives her the impression that she is the latest in a long line of "million dollar girls". She leaves John and returns to David.
[edit] Memorable quotes
When Diana and David are making love on the kitchen floor
- Diana
- Your pants are on fire.
- David
- You have no idea!
When David bids $1,000,000 on a hippopotamus at the zoo fund raiser that Gage was bidding on for Diana
- Diana
- I really wanted you to have that money.
- David
- I really wanted you to have that hippo.
When David meets Diana at the zoo fund raiser, to try and win her back
- David
- I thought we were invincible. But now I know that the things that people in love do to each other, they remember. And if they stay together, it's not because they forget. It's because they forgive.
At the very end when Diana finds David on Paradise Pier, where he proposed. He is sitting on a bench in the fog and doesn't see her come up and sit on the bench behind him.
- Diana
- Have I ever told you I love you?
- David
- No.
- Diana
- I do.
- David
- Still?
- Diana
- Always.
[edit] Cast
- Demi Moore as Diana Murphy
- Woody Harrelson as David Murphy
- Robert Redford as John Gage
- Seymour Cassel as Mr. Shackleford
- Oliver Platt as Jeremy
- Billy Bob Thornton as Day Tripper
