Indecent Proposal (1993)
Directed by Adrian Lyne
John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.
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The steamy setup leads to a conflict that recalls 1993’s Indecent Proposal, wherein two dudes get butthurt about sharing a romantic relationship with a woman. It’s 2024. Cinematically at least, shouldn’t we be past ’90s-era sexual politics?
A throwback to such racy but scolding Adrian Lyne movies as “Unfaithful” and “Indecent Proposal,” “The Boy Next Door” returns the mainstream erotic thriller to the multiplex, but its thin T-shirts and thinner characterizations fail to make a convincing case for the genre’s resurrection.
Lyne, who’s also directed films like 9 ½ Weeks , Fatal Attraction , and Indecent Proposal , is known for his sexy stories, and there was an expectation that this film would be in the same vein.
Also, “Deep Water” marks a return to sexy noir material for Adrian Lyne, who directed “9 ½ Weeks,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Indecent Proposal,” “Lolita” and “Unfaithful” but hasn’t made a film in 20 years.
It’s been 20 years since “Unfaithful” (2002), the last movie Adrian Lyne directed, and almost 30 since any of his movies has been a big deal (“Indecent Proposal,” 1993).
In the 1990s and early 2000s the English director Adrian Lyne was one of the masters of the erotic thriller, the craftsman behind such suspenseful yet deeply silly entertainments as 9½ Weeks , Fatal Attraction , Indecent Proposal , and Unfaithful .
Director Adrian Lyne has a reputation as the master of sexy mind games with such films as “Fatal Attraction,” “Indecent Proposal,” “Unfaithful” and “9½ Weeks.”
First published in 1957, acclaimed author Patricia Highsmith’s novel “Deep Water” has been adapted for the screen by “Fatal Attraction” and “Indecent Proposal” director Adrian Lyne.
The verdict: Begging comparisons to the work of director Adrian Lyne (“Fatal Attraction,” “Indecent Proposal,” “Unfaithful”) isn’t the best way for Egoyan to halt the perception that his career is floundering, but he brings enough atmosphere and finesse to “Chloe” to trick viewers into thinking there might be some depth to the film’s tawdry events.
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Movies like Indecent Proposal (1993), Ransom (1996), and Phone Booth (2002)?
Directed by Adrian Lyne (“Fatal Attraction” and “Indecent Proposal”), “Unfaithful” casts Lane as a mid-30’s housewife who has an affair with a young studmuffin that she’ll long live to regret.
Sex for Lyne is a Fatal Attraction, a Flashdance, an Indecent Proposal, or it's a fevered episode that occurs in 9 1/2 Weeks or with a nymphet named Lolita.
Ten years ago, Lyne might have junked this movie up he way he did 9 1/2 Weeks and Indecent Proposal, but he has become a more subtle director since even 1997's Lolita.
Lyne, the veteran of "Fatal Attraction," "91/2 Weeks," "Indecent Proposal" and "Lolita," is one of the movies' last moralists, an expert at using taste and decorum to elevate soap opera material.
The critical verdict on previous Lyne leer-fests like 911/42 Weeks (1986), Fatal Attraction (1987) and Indecent Proposal (1993) has been, at best, very mixed.
Lyne has made his share of glorified megaplex porn (''Indecent Proposal,'' ''9 1/2 Weeks''), but he's also the director who, in ''Fatal Attraction,'' struck a raw nerve of infidelity and possession in the age of postfeminist sexual warfare.
It's not even remotely suggestive of illogical Hollywood erotic thrillers like "Fatal Attraction" or "Indecent Proposal."