Secretary – 2002

In an opening scene that pretty much guarantees you won’t be sitting down and watching this movie with the inlaws, Secretary sets the stage for a sensual cinematic joy ride. Lee Halloway, played brilliantly by Maggie Gyllenhaal, is scantily clad in sexy lingerie her hands shackled to a bar that runs behind her neck, performing a normally routine admin task of stapling a document together, but due to her rather abnormal predicament she is using her nose to operate the stapler. And thus, the journey begins or more appropriately ends as the movie then takes you back in time to catch you up on how Lee ended up in this rather unique secretarial position.

Lee is a recently discharged mental patient that finds a job working for Mr. Grey played by James Spader. It was a role that the creepy  Spader was born to play. I put this role right up there with his role as Lee Woods in Two Days in the Valley, where he..ahem..entertains another hottie, Charlize Theron. Mr. Grey and Lee struggle at first to figure out how to work together, but then Mr. Grey figures out that Ms. Halloway likes to be corrected when she makes mistakes. I mean LIKES to be corrected. From there it is a funny, sexual, creepy look at a very strange working relationship.

Enjoy

Bill