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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 15, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2002
  • Label: Lions Gate

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...[Gyllenhall] gives a performance of remarkable gutsiness....[She] plays her role with sensuality as well as sensitivity...
Movieline's Hollywood Life
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
A feel-good movie about sadomasochism, the seriocomic Secretary manages to be simultaneously subversive and sweet...In the wrong hands, the conceit could have turned ugly and offensive. But Spader and Gyllenhaal have a hushed, hilarious chemistry. Full Review
Newsweek
Nov 1, 2007
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
Rating: 8/10 -- Absolutely terrific, tight, and focused filmmaking. Full Review
Antagony & Ecstasy
Mar 1, 2015
...Essentially this is a two-hander, with Spader and Gyllenhaal playing off each other superbly...
Sight and Sound
Jun 1, 2003

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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  • Sales Rank: 20,671
  • UPC: 658149236202
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