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The Proposition (1998)
description written by member Ben:
A well-to-do couple in the Depression era find themselves in a tangled mess when they hire a young Harvard student to perform the societally taboo and hitherto unthinkable: serve as a surrogate father for their child. Their problem only deepens when they fail to take into account the propensity for meddling by a new priest and the siren-like ability of the wife to cause others to fall into passionate love with her.
| Release Date: | March 27th, 1998 |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Running Time: | 110 minutes |
| Directed By: |  | Lesli Linka Glatter |
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I was looking for the Australian western of the same name and the Sundance credits writer got it wrong and roped me into this 1930s Boston Catholic melodrama. I still want to see the western, but this was not a bad misdirection.
Whoever cast A History of Violence had to see this film as William Hurt plays the same...
(complete The Proposition review by Movie Addict)
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