The Proposition Movie Review 1997

Information and Film Reviews for The Proposition the Movie

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Convoluted and clunky story centering on wealthy-but-sterile Boston industrialist Hurt and his feminist writer wife Stowe, who decide to hire a surrogate (Harris) to get Stowe pregnant. But faltering priest Branagh, whom the couple consult, has some concerns. After the surrogate is murdered, the melodrama starts to fly and the movie plays out like a daytime soap opera, complete with dirty little secrets and earth-shaking revelations dropped with the sublety usually reserved for an anvil on Wile E. Coyote. Hurt and Stowe give their characters a little fire, but everybody else seems to be wandering around on their own little acting planet.

Distribution

USA Home Entertainment, 1 W. Forest, Englewood, NJ 07631-4004, Phone: (201)871-1000, URL: http://www.polygram-us.com

Available on VHS
Running time 115 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres
Cattle Drive, Boston, Ethics & Morals, Flashback, Period Piece: 1930s, Nuns & Priests
Screenplay
Rick Ramage
Cast
Kenneth Branagh, William Hurt, Madeleine Stowe, Blythe Danner, Neil Patrick Harris, Robert Loggia, Josef Sommer, David Byrd
Cinematography
Peter Sova
Director
Leslie Linka Glatter
Music
Stephen Endelman

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