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Sep 20, 2002 · Lee Holloway (Maggie Gyllenhaal), a young woman with a history of severe emotional problems, is released into the care of her overbearing parents following a stay at a mental institution.
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- James Spader
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...
Mr. Grey has such bad luck with secretaries that he has an illuminated help-wanted sign out front he can light up, like the "Vacancy" sign at a motel. Gyllenhaal plays Lee Holloway, who has the illness of self-mutilation and comes from a neurotic family.
Apr 30, 2021 · The gist of the film is easy: angry Navy SEAL seeks revenge after his very pregnant wife is brutally riddled with bullet holes onscreen. The confusion comes in answering the questions of why she was killed, who did it and what this has to do with the U.S. government.
Nov 26, 2023 · Maggie Gyllenhaal is terrific in her breakthrough role. For Lee (Maggie Gyllenhaal), the young woman who will come to embody the job title from which Steven Shainberg’s Secretary (2002) gets its name, prospects of working provide her with a stability she craves beyond the financial.
Aug 6, 2021 · It’s one thing to go into watching those movies without having read those shitty books. It’s another to go into those films without having seen the 2002 movie Secretary starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader (the latter of whom is usually in these sorts of kinky flicks).
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Secretary is a 2002 American erotic romantic comedy-drama film directed by Steven Shainberg from a screenplay by Erin Cressida Wilson, based on the 1988 short story of the same name by Mary Gaitskill.
