Product Review

Indecent Proposal (BD)

Adrian Lyne buffs the premise of Honeymoon in Vegas to a fine gloss in t his yuppie melodrama that poses the conundrum of whether the loving hus band of an equally loving wife will accept $1 million to allow his wife to spend one night with a billionaire who looks l ike Robert Redford. Al l the cynics please take a number and form a line at the right. Demi Moo re and Woody Harrelson play Diana and David Murphy, high-school sweethea rts who marry and who are doing very well - Diana is a successful real-e state agent, and David is an idealistic architect who has built a dream house by the ocean - until the recession hits. Suddenly, David loses his job, and they can't make the mortgage payments. Dead broke, they borro w $5000 from David's father and head to Las Vegas to try to win money to pa y the mortgage on their house. At first, they get $25,000 ahead - bu t inevitably the house always wins, and they end up losing it al l. Whil e Diana is in the fancy casino boutique trying to lift some candy, she i s spotted by billionaire John Gage (Robert Redford), who is immediately attracted to her. John invites Diana and David to an opulent party, and it is there that John offers David $1 mil lion for a night with his wife . David is wracked by this moral dilemma, but Diana finally makes the de cision on her own, with ensuin g consequences for their ideal marriage a nd their bank account.