Secretary (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: October 5, 2010
  • Originally Released: 2002
  • Label: Lions Gate

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 60,424
This is a film that is in on the joke but doesn't make light of its subject matter. Full Review
The Monitor (McAllen, TX)
Aug 16, 2017
Rating: B- -- The cast comes through even when the movie doesn't.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Nov 4, 2002
...[A] pleasingly twisted black comedy....Gyllenhaal is an absolute revelation in the title role -- brave, goofy, and ultimately, mind-boggingly sexy...
Premiere
Sep 1, 2002
Rating: 4/4 -- "Secretary" recalibrates the capabilities of meaningful romantic comedy - a "Pygmalion" variation that's stealthily tender, witty but never broad and scintillatingly erotic to the point of palpitations. Gyllenhaal and Spader give career-best work. Full Review
The Film Yap
Sep 23, 2010
What a surprise Secretary turns out to be. Freshly conceived, small-scale and daring. Full Review
London Evening Standard
Dec 15, 2003
...A film of startling humor and feeling....Spader and Gyllenhaal are electric, bringing SECRETARY all the power and compassion it needs...
Rolling Stone
Oct 3, 2002
...SECRETARY is just too original to be ignored...
USA Today
Sep 27, 2002

Product Description:

The masochist says to the sadist, "Hurt me." The sadist replies, "No." Everybody's happy. This strange balance plays heavily into the Steven Shainberg-directed SECRETARY, based on a short story by Mary Gaitskill. Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a troubled young woman with a secret, destructive addiction fueled by her mother's overprotectiveness and her father's alcoholism. Sheltered and wholly dependent on other people, Lee's only form of self-expression is in this private, painful habit. That is, until she meets her new boss, the lawyer E. Edward Gray (James Spader), who hires her as his secretary. It is exciting for Lee to hold down a job, even if she is a basket case in the office. Mr. Gray watches Lee, studies her, and slowly begins to correct both her typing errors and her personality flaws. At first Mr. Gray's dominance appears scary and overbearing, a true threat to Lee's naive, fragile psyche. But as the film carefully develops these unique characters, revealing their odd strengths and weaknesses, it becomes delightfully clear that Lee and Mr. Gray can genuinely help each other. SECRETARY is a bright, atmospheric movie that shines a light on the "fun" in this dysfunctional relationship, while using brilliant performances by Gyllenhaal and Spader to illustrate the benefits of sadomasochistic love.

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  • UPC: 658149100077
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