Cat. No. DVDM 1018: THE PROPOSITION ~ WILLIAM HURT / MADELEINE STOWE / KENNETH BRANAGH. PAYLESS PEL1061.

4 AVAILABLE

COLOUR.                RUNNING TIME: 107 MINS.

REVIEW: This drama about the efforts of an upper-class couple to have a child takes place in 1935 Boston. When Father Michael McKinnon (Branagh) arrives from England to join the St. Jude’s clergy, he avoids wealthy parishioners Arthur and Eleanor Barret (William Hurt and Madeleine Stowe). Attorney Arthur, an FDR adviser, and successful author Eleanor, want a child, but Arthur is sterile. Eleanor asks Arthur to pay someone to impregnate her, and Harvard Law student Roger Martin (Neil Patrick Harris) is hired. He profits considerably, since he is required to return for several attempts. However, he becomes obsessed with Eleanor, infuriating Arthur, who threatens to kill him. Emotions and events escalate, as McKinnon reveals he is the son of Arthur’s Nazi-leaning brother, Eleanor loses the baby, McKinnon becomes attracted to Eleanor, and there’s a mysterious murder.

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