Adrian Lyne directs Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson and Robert Redford in this erotic drama where a rich man upturns a happy marriage by offering the down-on-his-luck husband a million dollars to fuck his beautiful wife.

A movie that does grow on me with every revisit. I think back as a young teenager cracking one out to it in my room the flick lost me when it starts out with ludicrous shot of Moore and Harrelson with their braces. These days it feels like the last release of the 1980s, mixing the opulent wealth porn of high concept with the pragmatic harder choices that adult cinema of my preferred decade. Because this isn’t a thriller or a film with an obvious villain (thanks to Warren Beatty demanding rewrites on a part he ultimately turned down) there’s no palpable moment of yuppie catharsis. Watching the plot unknot itself via personal growth rather than knives and rooftops is messy but unpredictable. Unpredictable is growing rarer and rarer so I’m giving Indecent Proposal a glossy if qualified pass. Moore has never looked so on the money.

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