Secretary
Released 10/11/2002 (United States)
📖 Storyline
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 is 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. —kateann1027An 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 is 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. —kateann1027
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💡 Did You Know?
During filming, Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader developed such a strong chemistry that they often improvised lines, resulting in several memorable moments that weren't in the original script.