Amazon.com video review:
One of the biggest teases in film history, this film's
sensational plot finds a young wife (Demi Moore) solicited for sex by
a wealthy bachelor (Robert Redford), for which the latter offers to
pay a cool million bucks to her and her underachieving husband (Woody
Harrelson). The two accept Redford's deal, and their marriage is
ruined. The twist in the film, though, is that the sin doesn't lie
with the rich guy, but rather with this unfocused, immature,
equivocating couple who would do such a thing, naively believing it
would get their lives on track. Director Adrian Lyne, who caused an
even greater stir by filming Lolita (the one starring Jeremy
Irons), thus pulls a kind of thinking person's bait and switch,
promising something tawdry and then turning the story around so its
focus is on a rite of passage for the estranged spouses. Still, Lyne
has some peculiarly garish ideas at times: the final disposition of
that million dollars is like a joke out of Monty Python. --Tom
Keogh
