Review – Indecent Proposal

A long time ago I spent part of a summer working as a janitor, and one afternoon I was peripherally involved in a debate about whether or not a certain popular but somewhat sexually ambiguous singer was gay. Somehow the topic shifted around to whether or not each of us would be willing to perform an act of oral sex with the aforementioned celebrity in exchange for a million dollars. One of the other janitors confidently proclaimed, “For a million dollars, I’d blow Michael Jackson and a goat!” Here we have the same basic dilemma, though I’m not sure whether Robert Redford would be the pop star or the ungulate. Demi Moore and Woody Harrelson play a couple of yuppies who fall on hard times and end up forced to decide whether or not to accept a millionaire’s offer of a hefty sum in exchange for a night of passionate sex (with her, not him). The basic premise is mildly intriguing in a spending-the-summer-sweeping-floors sort of way. Unfortunately, the burning question is answered about midway through, and the characters devote the remaining hour to floundering in the bathetic consequences of their decisions. See if desperate