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.

Drama Romance

Madeleine Stowe

(Eleanor Barret)

Kenneth Branagh

(Father Michael McKinnon)

William Hurt

(Arthur Barret)

Robert Loggia

(Hannibal Thurman)

Blythe Danner

(Syril Danning)

Ken Cheeseman

(Wayne Fenton)

Dee Nelson

(Susan Vicar)

Pamela Hart

(Skip Taylor)

Neil Patrick Harris

(Roger Martin)

Josef Sommer

(Dryer)

Dossy Peabody

(Hannibal's Secretary)

Wendy Feign

(Maid)

Thomas Downey

(Torrey Harrington)

Bronia Wheeler

(Sister Mary Frances)

Jim Chiros

(Timothy)

Tom Kemp

(Arthur's Chauffeur)

Frank Toste

(Frank)

David Byrd

(Dr. Jenkins)

Larry Bull

(Butler Captain (as Lawrence Bull))

Michael Bradshaw

(Butler)

Willy O'Donnell

(Andre)

Frank T. Wells

(Coroner)

Eric Bruno Borgman

(Parishoner (uncredited))

Elisabeth Anne Hughes

(Church Attendant (uncredited))

Caleb Mayo

(Altar Boy (uncredited))

Alan Francis Sullivan

(Man in Church (uncredited))

Dared Wright

(Boston Cop (uncredited))