Indecent Proposal

The wife (Moore) was a real estate agent whose name I didn't care to catch and the husband (Harrelson) was either an aspiring or just an architect whose name I also didn't pay attention to. I didn't like the movie. I fast-forwarded through a substantial amount of the movie when I felt the scene had no relevance. I wanted the gist of things, and saw more than was necessary for that. The two met and got engaged while in high school. People thought they wouldn't make it, and they eloped at some point. It was truly irrelevant. The "footage" of them as "teenagers" was, as per usual in movies, them in their thirties, but with much longer hair and maybe some braces. From his wife's insistence, Harrelson borrowed money from the bank or something to buy land on which to build some dream house of his. Eventually, they couldn't afford to make payments and the house was taken from them. They borrowed $5,000 from Moore's father, but that was not enough to make payments for the house. They spent a little money and Harrelson conceived the "brilliant plan" of going to Las Vegas. Moore was pleased with the idea and they went.

Arriving with about $4,000, Harrelson played around and ended the night with over 500% more than what he came with ($25,000). Moore spent her day in 'Vegas elsewhere, looking at a dress she couldn't afford and stealing chocolates off of a plate in the same store. Redford, a billionaire, spotted her stealing the chocolates and the two exchanged a smile. Later, he harassed her in the same store, telling her to try on the dress she had hung over herself while looking in a mirror. She said she couldn't afford it and he said it "suited her," so she should have it, and that he'd buy it for her. She responded, "You want to buy me the dress?" He said that he did, and, out of nowhere, Moore said, "The dress is for sale, not me." She then left. At the end of the day Harrelson told his wife, who was rolling around in cash on the hotel bed, that he would play more the next day and make a lot of money.

They lost all of their money at roulette and were on their way out when they saw big-shot Redford making bets on some card game with $10,000 chips. Redford spotted Moore and asked Harrelson if he could "borrow her for luck." He bet some money on a hand he had with her at his side and lost. Cheesily, he asked Moore if she liked cards, and she said that she didn't. He went, "I wish you'd told me that before." Then he asks, "Do you like dice?" To which she responds, "Yeah, I guess." They went to the craps table after he wrote a check for $1,000,000 in exchange for that amount in gambling chips. He cheesily bet it all and had Moore not only roll the dice, but kiss them before she did. He told her he needed a seven, then added that an eleven would do, and, sure enough, she rolled a seven. I assume this doubled his money. She did not ask for a cut, even though she was flat broke and he wouldn't have gotten that extra $1,000,000 without her. I would have demanded a cut beforehand. Redford offered to pay for the husband and wife's hotel stay after they said that they couldn't afford to. Redford bought the dress she had been looking at earlier and sent it to her room as a "thank you" for the $1,000,000.

They were invited to some party the next day. Redford spent his time away from the other surely well-to-do guests to be with the broke husband and his broke wife who had gotten him $1,000,000, expecting nothing, but winding up being given what looked like maybe a $40 dress as a gift, which Moore shamelessly wore to the party. The three of them were shown at a table together, chatting and laughing. In the next scene, Redford was shooting pool with Harrelson while Moore watched. Redford asked Harrelson what he ultimately needed to be happy. Moore interrupted by saying that she is happy, with a tone and hateful look that indicated that she believed Redford had it bad for her. Harrelson agreed, saying that he was happy. He then inquired what Redford needed to be happy, noting that he had so much money. Redford said he needed someone like Harrelson's wife. Moore said, "Money can't buy everything. You can't buy love." Redford contested this, saying, "Well, let's test that right now." Speaking to the husband, he asked, "Hypothetically, if I were to offer you $1,000,000 for one night with your wife, what would you say?" Moore interrupted, "He would tell you to go to shells." Then Harrelson was all, "I would assume you were joking. Then I would tell you to go to shells." Redford then said they were only saying that because it was hypothetical, but if it were real, they wouldn't necessarily react that way. The married couple left, pretending to be offended.

Back in their hotel room, the couple realized while having been in bed for presumable hours that they could not sleep, because they were both interested in the offer of $1,000,000 (an amount a billionaire has hundreds to thousands of (of course), the same amount that the billionaire in this case was literally willing to throw away on the off-chance that some poor female he'd just met was "lucky" and the same amount the poor wife technically won for the billionaire) for the billionaire to do whatever he wanted with or to the wife for one night. Personally, I would be furious on so many levels if my husband could not sleep due to his interest in prostituting me off for money. I would expect my husband to feel the same way if I couldn't sleep because I was interested in the proposition. They decided they were willing to do it. The pool table scene where Redford "proposed" something "indecent" hypothetically technically remained a "hypothetical" question at the end of that scene and the scene right after that was them in bed trying to sleep, so I am not sure why they took it seriously. Nonetheless, the offer turned out to be real and they incorporated their lawyer for some reason on the deal, to "negotiate" who care's what. Redford got his one night with Moore. They showed him taking her in a helicopter to some boat or some junk and then them hanging out on this big boat alone. Moore shamefully returned to her and her husband's hotel room the following morning and narrated as they drove home that they figured that would be the end of it.

They went home and tried to pay off the house Harrelson had been working on and found they were too late, by a few days. The guy told them someone else had bought it and that there was nothing he could do. They bawled, saying that they had asked for an extension and the guy told them that it expired or something. One day, Harrelson, to his wife, was all, "What's Griffon?" because he had found a box of matches on their kitchen counter that read "Griffon" among some of her things. Moore was like, "Have you been going through my purse?" The husband went, "No, why? Is there something worse in there? What's Griffon?" She said, "Griffon is the boat he took me on." Harrelson went in their bedroom where he saw her purse and decided to look through it. First thing he took out was her wallet. The first thing he did then was look in a pocket of the wallet where she had some picture of them as teenagers. Then he went back to the same pocket and found his wife had one of those business card-like cards that only has someone's name professionally printed on it, and whoever has it made has to write things on it, like their phone number, which is what the one in her wallet had written on it in pencil. It had the billionaire's name and number on it. The husband went into the living room to find his wife hanging up the phone. He went, "Who were you talking to?" Her, "My mother." Him, "Right, your "mom." What did she say?" Her, "Nothing. She wasn't there." Him, "Then why did you say you were talking to her?" Her, "Because, I was calling to talk to her, but she wasn't there." Man, the dialogue in this movie. I thought the acting was bad also. He confronted her about the card. She said, "Where did that come from? I've never seen it before." They realized they couldn't be with each other because he didn't trust her, I guess, so they separated.

At some point, Moore found out who bought the house, and it was Redford, the stalking billionaire who had no life. She was furious and went to some restaurant where Redford was eating and made a scene. Redford escorted her outside where she eventually told him she hated him, and he responded, "You don't hate me, you wish that you hated me." Gag. He continued to harass her and finally forced her to communicate through requesting (through her boss, I assumed) that she show him some houses. She complied and walked him through what I figured was an expensive house or two before they happened to drive by a huge house which Redford blatantly practically sat on her lap to look over at so she would notice he was looking at it. She said, "That house is at least $30,000,000." He said, "You think so?" They went to look at it and while walking across the lawn, Moore said, "I don't think this house is for sale." Redford responded, "Everything is for sale." They reached the house and were somewhere on it when she said, "This is your house, isn't it?" Him, "Do you like it?" Her, "It's missing...life. You need some dogs (and some other things) here." Him, "It needs you." Gag. Blah blah blah, who cares, they wind up dating. Harrelson somehow knew they were going to some restaurant one night and harassed them as they were entering. I couldn't tell if he was supposed to be drunk. It was raining, of course, as it does when someone wants someone back. He began a corny exchange he and the wife did at the start of the movie and two other times after that. "Have I told you that I love you?" he asked. She didn't respond. The entire thing was, "Have I told you that I love you? -No. -Well, I do. -Still? -Always." He then tried to punch Redford in the face, missing him and falling to the ground.

Eventually, Moore and Redford were at an outside auction for who knows what. The auctioneer showed pictures of a hippopotamus and started the bidding at $10,000. Redford bid and then some woman bid. I believe the two had reached $65,000 when Harrelson called out a bid of $1,000,000 from the background, the amount he'd prostituted his wife out for. He then walked over to the table at which Redford and Moore sat. Redford left them alone, but watched from a distance. I fast-forwarded, as I had many times throughout the movie, and saw Harrelson signing what I assumed were divorce papers. Redford and Moore were being driven home and sat in silence for a while. Redford broke it by asking the driver, "What do you think? She has got to be the best of the million-dollar club, wouldn't you say?" The driver agreed, ad-libbing something about how one of the members "wouldn't stop hiccuping." That was lame. Redford looked at Moore and said, "You didn't think you were the first, did you?" The driver and Redford carried on with that conversation for a minute or two until Moore told the driver to pull over. "Thank you," she said to Redford, and then left the car. I thought it was pretty funny how she just assumed he was letting her go instead of being serious. But it is a movie, so he actually was setting her free. She ran on what looked like a highway just in time to catch a bus that was stopping at a bus stop a couple feet in front of where the driver had pulled over. The driver asked Redford, "What was that about?" Redford said, "She never would have looked at me the way she looked at him."

From there, Moore went to the pier where Harrelson had given her a decent proposal years before (you know, for her hand in marriage). It was misty and there was a person at the end of the pier sitting on a bench. Naturally, it was Harrelson. She went to the bench and sat in the one directly behind his. She began the corny exchange that happened at least three other times prior from what I saw in the movie. They completed it and that was the end of the movie.