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The Proposition is a american film of genre Drama directed by Lesli Linka Glatter released in USA on 26 march 1998 with Madeleine Stowe
The Proposition (1998)
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Add to a movie listThe Proposition is a 1998 drama film starring Madeleine Stowe, Kenneth Branagh, William Hurt and Robert Loggia.
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À Boston (Massachusetts) en 1935, Arthur Barret, stérile, engage Roger, un jeune étudiant de Harvard pour faire un enfant à sa femme Eleanor. Après que Roger et l'enfant meurent dans des conditions étranges, Eleanor se rapproche du père McKinnon, récemment arrivé d'Angleterre et qui cache un secret le liant à la famille Barret. Leur relation, au départ amicale, va évoluer.Actors
Madeleine Stowe
(Eleanor Barret)
Kenneth Branagh
(Father Michael McKinnon)
William Hurt
(Arthur Barret)
Robert Loggia
(Hannibal Thurman)
Neil Patrick Harris
(Roger Martin)
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