Midweek Mention... Indecent Proposal

We don’t usually double up on an actor, but when Robert Redford died at 89, it felt only right to go again. A true Hollywood legend — Butch Cassidy, The Sting, All the President’s Men — Redford left us not just with an iconic filmography but also Sundance, a festival that gave countless indie movies a life. This week, we pay tribute by reviewing Indecent Proposal (1993).

It’s the one where a young, loved-up couple (Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore) are offered a cool million dollars by Redford’s billionaire for one night with the wife. A sleazy premise? Absolutely. But it was a 90s cultural flashpoint that had everyone asking: what would you do?

What we cover

• Redford as a twinkly-eyed predator — suave, charming, but pure sociopath energy.
• Woody Harrelson’s “character growth” (spoiler: remembering to take his muddy shoes off the table).
• Demi Moore stuck as the literal bargaining chip between two men.
• Erotic sax solos, visible erections, and more money-on-the-bed shots than you can shake a hippo at.
• Why this could’ve been a sharp morality tale, but instead feels like a glossy objectification exercise.
• The cultural lens shift: what audiences excused in 1993 versus what plays as flat-out toxic today.

As always, expect detours into visible erections, Michael Bay’s slow-mo dice shots, hippos at auctions, Oliver Platt being a slimy lawyer, and whether we’d personally take the money (spoiler: the negotiations got weird).

“Hard recommend? Hard pass? Or just Woody being… hard?”

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