Word: redfords
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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INDECENT PROPOSAL asks us to believe that a billionaire who looks uncannily like Robert Redford needs to buy sex. Granted, Diana, his quarry, looks uncannily like Demi Moore, but still, $1 million for a quickie? No doubt he gets off on control; there might have been an interesting movie in that. But this ga-ga film goes for the moral dilemma. Diana and her husband (Woody Harrelson) debate the offer forever before she accepts. They quarrel while Diana and her one-night stand get lovey-dovey, but then things turn out fine. Because director Adrian Lyne takes all this...
...Year of the Killer Woman -- of the vixen, nanny or best friend who uses sex as the appetizer for destruction. And 1993 could be the Year of the Woman as Door Prize. In Honeymoon in Vegas, Mad Dog and Glory and the forthcoming Indecent Proposal, starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore, a young woman is the gift one man offers another. "You couldn't get away with this retro idea with any other kind of person," fumes Khouri. "Would Eddie Murphy star in a movie where he was a gift to a white person...
...pretty pictures are not enough to make a movie and Redford's explanation of the metaphysics of fly fishing comes straight from the book, making the film little more than a collection of illustrations for the novel. It would be hard to visualize the beauty that Maclean describes in the pages of A River Runs Through It, so Redford's interpretation serves some purpose. But for those of us who haven't read the novel, something is missing...
...really understood the lure of fishing and though I watched my grandfather attentively, I never learned anything. Without that knowledge of how a fish thinks, I don't think I could ever really comprehend "A River Runs Through It," at least not without the help of Maclean's prose. Redford's illustrations are incredibly beautiful, but if you've never been there, you can't really understand...
Directed by Robert Redford...