Secretary


A young woman with a history of self-abuse is released from a mental care facility, and trains herself in secretarial skills. She soon finds a job working for a lawyer who frequently changes secretaries. He has an extremely dominant personality. As their working relationship develops, things drift towards the personal side, as each fills a need in the other. The situation get complicated when she starts developing romantic feelings, instead of just keeping things physical, since he does not know how to handle situations like that. An award-winner at Sundance for originality, it features scenes of S&M which might not appeal to everyone.


108 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Nudity, Violence) .
Comedy, Drama, Sex, On the Art Circuit
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Credits

Cast
James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren, Stephen McHattie
Director
Steven Shainberg
ScreenplayErin Cressida Wilson, Steven Shainberg, from the short story by Mary Gaitskill
MusicAngelo Badalamenti
CinematographySteven Fierberg
Sound formatsDolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Made in2002
Produced byDouble A Films, Slough Pond, TwoPoundBag Productions

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Ratings

Scale (Max)20

What the Critics say

Cape Argus
Theresa Smith
10
The Cape Times
Manohla Dargis
15
The Star
Ty Burr
14
Die Burger
Laetitia Pople
15
Sunday Times
Barry Ronge
5
eye Weekly
Kim Linekin
8
Box Office
Chris Wiegand
8
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
18
Chicago Sunday Times
Roger Ebert
15
BBC
Nev Pierce
5

What the People say

Internet
3934 Netizens
15

Average .. 58%

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