A sexpot with a proven propensity for boiling over, Moore is the sort of woman who gardens in a slit skirt and favors fashions designed to prove that Demi has nothing to do with cup size. Insisting that she's only doing it for Harrelson, Moore copters off to Redford's yacht, where she is wooed by the courtly moneybags, who has thoughtfully flown in Herbie Hancock to play the piano. In a lame attempt to head off feminist rage, it's Moore who actually accepts the offer. Deciding that he must have this truffle-swiping lovely, Redford invites the couple to a lavish party where he makes his indecent proposal to Harrelson - $1 million for your wife for one night. (Never mind that Jack Kent Cooke is considered a hunk among billionaires - this one's played by Redford). In fact, Moore is sneaking chocolates from a pricey casino boutique when she's spotted by a high-rolling billionaire who is instantly besotted with her. Matters proceed pretty much as you'd expect, and the couple is soon penniless. All the more reason to stay away from the casinos and get jobs waiting tables.
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This is not a bright idea, of course, but then neither of them is playing with a full deck. When the bank threatens foreclosure, he borrows $5,000 from his father, which he hopes to parlay into $50,000 in Las Vegas. Then the recession brings disaster for this highly leveraged couple: He's laid off, her sales slump and they can't make the mortgage payments on their oceanside dream house, which he designed and built. "For entertainment, he'd show me architecture that moved him," she confides. They're not wealthy - she's only selling mansions in Beverly Hills - but they still have fun. Jones, who punished a mom for returning to work in "Beethoven," now takes out her self-loathing on Moore, a super successful real estate agent happily married to her childhood sweetheart. Never mind that three women - Lansing, Moore and screenwriter Amy Holden Jones - are among those mortgaging their future. Hot on the round heels of "Mad Dog and Glory," it's another picture-book look at prostitution that makes "Pretty Woman" seem like Susan Faludi. It's a trashy yuppie melodrama that turns on the collapse of the housing market, which causes a failed architect (Harrelson) to hang a "For Sale" sign on his Realtor wife (Demi Moore). And "Indecent Proposal" is definitely '80s. "Indecent Proposal" wrestles with one of the greater moral questions of our time: Would you rather spend one night with Robert Redford, thereby earning $1 million, or spend the rest of your life with Woody Harrelson, resident boob on "Cheers"? A tough question, yes, but Adrian Lyne and Sherry Lansing, the prurient pair behind "Fatal Attraction," aren't ones to shrink from the dilemmas that have defined the '80s. Adult themes, sexuality and partial nudity
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