
An emotionally fragile woman recently released from a mental hospital for self mutilation goes to school to gain secretarial skills to gain employment. She has an alcoholic father and a co-dependent mother who are clueless as to who she really is which a tormented soul who really wants to find something with which she can find success. She is a great secretary and finds a job with a unique, old fashioned, but off center in charge boss with a somewhat sadistic sexual proclivit... (Full plot summary below)
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An emotionally fragile woman recently released from a mental hospital for self mutilation goes to school to gain secretarial skills to gain employment. She has an alcoholic father and a co-dependent mother who are clueless as to who she really is which a tormented soul who really wants to find something with which she can find success. She is a great secretary and finds a job with a unique, old fashioned, but off center in charge boss with a somewhat sadistic sexual proclivity. She grows and evolves and so does he.
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| The Film YapNick Rogers"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. |
| Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttWhat keeps the movie going is the riotously funny and supremely self-controlled performance by Gyllenhaal. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderThe relationship between quirky perfectionist lawyer E. Edward Grey (James Spader) and his obsessive secretary Lee (Maggie Gyllenhaal) is uncomfortable and squirmish. Not to mention funny, upbeat and oddly compelling. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsBob StraussSecretary is one of the rare films that knows how to make fun of fetishes while having fun with them, and all the while taking them as seriously as the people on screen surely do. |
| Denver PostSteven RosenIt is truly original in its tone, its choices made and paths taken. |
| Lawrence.comEric MelinShainberg sets up a restless quality in both characters, and he takes them very seriously but it still comes as a bit of shock to see what is normally considered to be sexist behavior finally and ultimately embraced. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.A fascinating and eccentric character study, and study of unconventional relationships fueled by fetish... |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe movie enters a realm where few non-porn films venture, and comes across as darkly funny, energetic, and surprisingly gentle. |
| Film ThreatRick KisonakSuspend your inclination toward the politically correct for a couple of hours and I bet you'll find yourself, as I did, rooting for these two loonies to live slappily ever after. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThe film was cute and well-acted and tastefully directed and its humor well-placed, but it went nowhere with its muted story. |