Indecent Proposal (1993) poster
1993 · romance · drama · music

Indecent Proposal

Directed by Adrian Lyne1h 57m1993
ElsewhereIMDb6.082kRT34%Metacritic45
  • warm
  • tender
Movie DNA

Warm, steady, measured romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.

Our read · Indecent Proposal (1993) reads as a warm, steady, grounded romance · drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a heated what-would-you-do romance that stays fiercely talkable after credits.

ends warmit stays with youa slow buildgrips by minute 18attention 4/5earns its length
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upexplicit sex

Skip it tonightSkip if infidelity hypotheticals will sour the mood with your partner tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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