Secretary(Movie, 2002)

Name: Secretary
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 2002
Duration: T01:44:00
Rating: 3.4

| 1h 44min | Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 676 votes)

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. Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader, the film explores the intense relationship between a dominant lawyer and his submissive secretary, who indulge in various types of BDSM activities such as erotic spanking and petplay. ()

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Duration: 1h 51min

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Awards & Nominations for Secretary

Sundance Special Jury Prize for Originality

About Secretary

A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

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Trailer for Secretary + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer 1(Trailer, 2:19)

Trailer 1 (Trailer) | Deutscher Trailer (Trailer, DE)

Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Made by: double A Films, Slough Pond, TwoPoundBag Productions

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 29 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 09/20/2002

Cast: James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jeremy Davies, Lesley Ann Warren, Stephen McHattie, Patrick Bauchau, Jessica Tuck, Oz Perkins, Amy Locane, Sabrina Grdevich, Michael Mantell

Director: Steven Shainberg

Producer: Steven Shainberg

Screenwriter: Steven Shainberg

Director of Photography: Steven Fierberg

Composer: Angelo Badalamenti

Production Designer: Michael A. Baker

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"La secretaria"

"风流老板俏秘书"

"Secretary - Womit kann ich dienen?"

"세크러테리"

"The Secretarty"

Keywords: typewriter, sadomasochism, cutting, workplace romance, pantyhose, kinky, fetish, hospital, suicide, secretary, lawyer, bdsm, clerk

Budget: 4,000,000 USD

Revenue: 9,304,609 USD (= 233%)

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Secretary(Movie, 2002)

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