
The Proposition
One man gave up everything he owned. The other, everything he believed in.
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.
Director Lesli Linka Glatter
Cast

Tom Kemp
Arthur's Chauffeur

Madeleine Stowe
Eleanor Barret

Robert Loggia
Hannibal Thurman

Pamela Hart
Skip Taylor

Dossy Peabody
Hannibal's Secretary

David Byrd
Dr. Jenkins

Dared Wright
Boston Cop (uncredited)

Kenneth Branagh
Father Michael McKinnon

William Hurt
Arthur Barret

Blythe Danner
Syril Danning

Thomas Downey
Torrey Harrington

Eric Bruno Borgman
Parishoner (uncredited)

Dee Nelson
Susan Vicar

Josef Sommer
Dryer

Wendy Feign
Maid

Larry Bull
Butler Captain (as Lawrence Bull)

Frank T. Wells
Coroner

Ken Cheeseman
Wayne Fenton

Neil Patrick Harris
Roger Martin