The Proposition

Plot Summary

Father Michael McKinnon goes from the UK to Boston circa 1935. For unknown reasons, he avoids at all costs the most prominent parishioners, Arthur and Eleanor Barret. Meanwhile Eleanor and Arthur desperately want to have a child, but Arthur is sterile, so they hire Harvard law student Roger Martin to impregnate Eleanor, but unfortunately Roger falls in love with her.

Top Cast

Madeleine Stowe Eleanor Barret

Kenneth Branagh Father Michael McKinnon

William Hurt Arthur Barret

Robert Loggia Hannibal Thurman

Blythe Danner Syril Danning