Secretary: A Screenplay - Softcover

Secretary, the companion volume to the hit movie starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader, is the darkly comic tale of a young woman who finds love in a sadomasochistic relationship with her boss. The success of the film is due in no small part to Erin Cressida Wilson's adaptation of Mary Gaitskill's 1989 short story from her collection, Bad Behavior.

In the film that was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Lee Holloway is hired for a secretarial position at the law office of E. Edward Grey, despite having only recently been released from a mental institution. It is not long before Lee and Mr. Grey embark on a workplace S&M romance. Her family tries to lure her back into the conventional non-S&M world, but Lee, now fully aware of her deepest feelings, refuses to budge. Based on acclaimed short story by Mary Gaitskill, SECRETARY toys with our expectations of love, sexuality and intimacy, while exploring the delicate balance between pain and healing, control and surrender. Shot through with bold, unflinching humour and a strange yet seductive eroticism, SECRETARY is, at its core, a powerful and unique love story.