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The Proposition (1998)
Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter
“One man gave up everything he owned. The other, everything he believed in.”
Drama, Romance · 1h 50m
Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.
Cast
Madeleine Stowe
Eleanor Barret
Kenneth Branagh
Father Michael McKinnon
William Hurt
Arthur Barret
Robert Loggia
Hannibal Thurman
Blythe Danner
Syril Danning
Ken Cheeseman
Wayne Fenton
Dee Nelson
Susan Vicar
Pamela Hart
Skip Taylor
Neil Patrick Harris
Roger Martin
Josef Sommer
Dryer
Dossy Peabody
Hannibal's Secretary
Wendy Feign
Maid
Crew
- Director
- Lesli Linka Glatter
- Writer
- Rick Ramage
- Director of Photography
- Peter Sova
- Original Music Composer
- Stephen Endelman
- Editor
- Jacqueline Cambas
- Producer
- Diane Nabatoff, Ted Field, Scott Kroopf
Details
- Release date
- 1998-03-26
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Interscope Communications, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
- Box office
- $147,773