The Proposition
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1998-03-26
Runtime: 110 mins
Director: Lesli Linka Glatter
Writer: Rick Ramage
Spoken language: English
Genres: Drama, Romance
Original title: The Proposition
Production Companies: Interscope Communications, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Madeleine Stowe
Kenneth Branagh
William Hurt
Robert Loggia
Blythe Danner
Ken Cheeseman
Dee Nelson
Pamela Hart
Neil Patrick Harris
Josef Sommer
Dossy Peabody
Wendy Feign
Thomas Downey
Bronia Wheeler
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