The Proposition

Mar 26, 1998

1h 50m

★ 6.2

One man gave up everything he owned. The other, everything he believed in.

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Interscope Communications

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

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Cast

Eleanor Barret

Madeleine Stowe

Father Michael McKinnon

Kenneth Branagh

Arthur Barret

William Hurt

Hannibal Thurman

Robert Loggia

Sister Mary Frances

Bronia Wheeler

Roger Martin

Neil Patrick Harris

Syril Danning

Blythe Danner

Wayne Fenton

Ken Cheeseman

Torrey Harrington

Thomas Downey

(ADR loop group)

Bryan Scott

Susan Vicar

Dee Nelson

Maid

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