This Hilarious, Thoughtful, and Achingly Sexy Indie Was the ‘Babygirl’ of the Early 2000s

Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader star in one of the best movies about BDSM and kink power dynamics, 2002's Secretary.

February 9, 2025 · 1 min · 41 words · Rhonda Hensley

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What is ‘Secretary’ About?

The film is set to exit theaters soon.

Spader, meanwhile, had spent a career perfectingicy men with unshakable fixations, andMr.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal as Lee Holloway in Secretary

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Harris Dickinson and Nicole Kidman about to kiss in Babygirl.

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