Indecent Proposal

High school sweethearts David and Diana Murphy are a married couple who travel to Las Vegas, hoping they can win enough money to finance David's fantasy real estate project.

After gambling away all of their savings on roulette, they encounter billionaire John Gage. Gage is attracted to Diana and offers them one million dollars to allow him to spend a night with her. After a difficult night, David and Diana decide to accept the offer, and a contract is signed the next day. Gage flies Diana to a private yacht where he offers her a chance to void the deal and return to her husband if he loses a toss of his lucky coin. Gage wins the coin toss and Diana spends the night with him.

Although he had hoped to forget the whole incident, David grows increasingly insecure about his relationship with Diana, consumed with a fear that she remains involved with Gage; this insecurity is heightened by the fact that Diana discovers that Gage has bought their home/property while it was going into foreclosure. As tension between them builds, David and Diana separate.

Gage renews his advances on Diana. Although she initially resists, Diana eventually consents to spending time with him and a relationship develops. David, meanwhile, hits rock bottom and then slowly pulls his life back together. When Diana files for divorce, David signs the divorce papers and gives the million dollars away.

Diana tells Gage "I think we should talk". Gage, perhaps sensing what is coming, recognizes that, even if Diana stayed with him, their relationship would never achieve the intensity she had with David. Realizing that she longs to return to her husband, Gage makes up a story that she was only the latest in a long line of "million-dollar girls". Diana understands that Gage is doing this to make it easy for her to leave. Gage gives her his lucky coin, which is revealed to be double-headed. She returns to the pier where David proposed seven years earlier, and he is there. She sits on the opposite side from him, and they join hands.

Engelhard's novel contained cultural friction that the screenwriter left out of the movie: the main character, named Joshua, is Jewish, and his billionaire foil is an Arab. In a review of the novel, The New York Times summarized its themes as "the sanctity of marriage versus the love of money, the Jew versus significant non-Jews such as shiksas and sheiks, skill versus luck, materialism versus spirituality, Israel versus the Arab countries, the past versus the future, and the religious world versus the secular one."[14]

The soundtrack was released on April 6, 1993, by MCA Records. "In All the Right Places" by Lisa Stansfield was released as the album's lead single on May 24, 1993, and is the film's theme song. Sheena Easton makes a cameo appearance in the movie performing "The Nearness of You" at a pivotal part of the movie. The length of the soundtrack is 60 minutes and 37 seconds. "No Ordinary Love" by English band Sade was also prominently featured in the film, though it was not included on its soundtrack album.

In 2015 Intrada Records released an album of John Barry's score.

• The 1993 Mad About You episode "Pair of Hearts" in the last scene has Jamie and Paul at the gambling table when a stranger offers Paul $1M to sleep with Jamie. Unlike the movie (which also premiered in 1993) there's no angst here and they both readily agree.[17]
• A 1993 episode of Married... with Children had Vanna White playing an ex-girlfriend of Al's, who is now a cosmetics mogul, offering Peg $250,000 for one night with him. In a more comedic copy of the film, Peg shows a rare instance of morality and cannot bring herself to adulterate a marriage. Promos for the episode played on the film by showing an ad claiming "Now this is really indecent! Who would pay $250,000 for a night of shame with Al? Would you believe, Vanna White?!"
• The 2002 episode "Half-Decent Proposal" of The Simpsons parodies and follows the story of the film loosely.[18]
• The episode "Conference" of UK comedy series Peep Show references the central concept of the film, where one of Mark's bosses offers Jeremy £530 to spend the night with Jeremy's past girlfriend "Big Suze".
• In season one episode four of Mike Tyson Mysteries Robert Redford appears and proposes to give the team one million dollars to gamble on in exchange for some time with Yung Hee.
• In season two, episode twenty-two of Community, millionaire Pierce Hawthorne offers Troy and Abed $1000 to buy the rights to their secret handshake. Recognizing the similarity to the premise of Indecent Proposal, the two film buffs accept the offer.
• In the episode "Dennis' Double Life" from season 12 of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Frank suggests they make a "Decent Proposal" to buy off the mother of Dennis's child. However, Frank insists $1 million is too much money to spend for a night with a woman, and instead offers the woman $5,000.
• Impractical Jokers featured a punishment inspired by Indecent Proposal in the Season 7 episode of the same name. In that episode, Sal must make an indecent proposal to several couples at a dance class while acting as an instructor.
• The 1996 film Kingpin parodies the proposal in which an unnamed gambler in Reno, Nevada proposes to Roy Munson (also played by Woody Harrelson) one million dollars cash to sleep with his friend Ishmael (Randy Quaid), which he has a fantasy about accepting, playing with the money in his hotel room, but ultimately declines.
• In a 1996 episode of Pinky and the Brain titled "Brain's Song", the Brain approaches Bruce Willis to star in his new movie, but he turns the offer down because Demi Moore (who was his wife at the time) wants him to stay at home with their children. In response, Brain quips, "If I dressed up like Robert Redford and gave her a million dollars, do you think she'd go away?"
• The video for Phoebe Bridgers's song "Demi Moore" (from 2017's Stranger in the Alps) is composed of clips from the film, though the lyrics have little resonance with the story.
• Season one of Netflix's What/If (2019) has been described as a gender-swap of Indecent Proposal.[19] As a way of acknowledging this inspiration, in the first episode, after the proposal is made, Jane Levy's character says “This whole idea was ripped out of a bad Nineties movie,” , to which Renée Zellweger's character replies “I thought that movie was quite decent”.

On July 30, 2018, Paramount Players announced that a remake of the film is currently in development, with the screenplay being written by Erin Cressida Wilson.[20][21]

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