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61% Critic Match
The Proposition
“One man gave up everything he owned. The other, everything he believed in.”
6.1 / 10• 1998• 1h 50m•R• English
DramaRomance
Storyline
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 & Crew
Madeleine Stowe
Eleanor Barret
Lead
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
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Lesli Linka Glatter's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Proposition is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
