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Secretary

RomanceDramaComedy

Directed by Steven Shainberg

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. From TMDB

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Secretary is a 2002 romance drama comedy film, directed by Steven Shainberg, starring James Spader, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jeremy Davies.

  • 122 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, TMDB reviews, Mastodon
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  • Aaron Rupar @atrupar.comBluesky · Mar 5, 2026

    Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

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  • Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 13, 2025

    Former Tory Brexit Secretary joins insane call for UK to leave ECHR. My latest film explains why joining Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR will do nothing to stop small boats & it will undermine all our rights Please watch & share youtu.be/RlxcYDYFGJ0?...

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  • Inequality Media Civic Action @imcivicaction.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2025

    He's known as a former Secretary of Labor, but @rbreich.bsky.social considers teaching his true calling. Our new film, The Last Class, follows this lifelong educator wrestling with the realities of his own aging and his students inheriting a world out of balance.

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  • jthrankson.bsky.social @jthrankson.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2026

    No wonder this administration is SO confused about their alleged Christianity; their leader thinks he’s Jesus, their Secretary of War misquotes Ezekiel 25:17 w/a Tarantino film quote, their VP thinks the Pope should concentrate on morality not a convicted FELON killing folks in useless war, etc 🤦‍♂️

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  • David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    The Trump Administration has stressed that she is only in the job on an interim basis, but I feel like Other Mommy From The Film "Other Mommy" has all the tools to become a very good White House Press Secretary.

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  • ✨ 🌕 Lu(na) Awoo(na) 🐺 ✨ 🔞 @rusheloc.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 6, 2026

    Space Fox Galaxy Princess At least that movie gave us this famous scene! Spicy alt available for my Secretary and higher tier patrons! www.patreon.com/c/rusheloc

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  • TRG Movies & Entertainment @trg-commentary.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 19, 2026

    When the "war" Secretary reads a pseudo bible verse adapted from a movie like Pulp Fiction, we're all in deep shit together, because that means the Secretary of Defense, who drops bombs on a foreign country, is not a serious person and models himself after characters in action movies.

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  • DrH @drhaup.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2026

    Rep. Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate former DHS Secretary Noem on Shield of Americas appointment, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie. She'll go down in history as the worst Secretary since the creation of DHS after 9/11."

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  • The Fact of Other Minds Stan Account @csilverandgold.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2026

    Operation Epic Fury should be the name of an operation planned by a drunk American “Secretary of War” in a parody movie about the start of world war three but no here we are living it because a bunch of stupid men, some ungodly rich, thought the internet was stopping them from using enough slurs.

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  • Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 13, 2025

    ICE has taken Chinese dissident Guan Heng into custody and is threatening to return him to China. Guan Heng risked his life to film the Uyghur concentration camps—the same camps Secretary of State Rubio opposed when he sponsored the “Uyghur Force Labor Prevention Act” as a US senator.

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  • draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2025

    Now that the US president is a character from a reality TV show & the Secretary of Defense is a TV host who wants to pretend he's in an action movie & immigration enforcement has been turned into a rip-off of COPS, can we finally admit the critics were right & reality TV really is bad for society?

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  • Daniel Schneider @biologistdan.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 29, 2025

    Lock Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth up. This is real life. Real people. Not a movie.

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  • The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2026

    Born 5th April 1929, actor Nigel Hawthorne. Among many other parts, he played Sir Humphrey Appleby, the permanent secretary in the 1980s sitcom Yes Minister, and the Cabinet Secretary in the follow-up Yes Prime Minister. He also played the King in the film The Madness of King George. #NigelHawthorne

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  • 🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2025

    I cannot stress enough how much Pete Hegseth is playing an evil Secretary of Defense in a Skinemax movie.

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  • Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2025

    We used to have nice things, like a highly qualified, highly competent, delightfully human Treasury Secretary who was not a serially lying 80s movie villain.

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  • Kirpal Singh @kirpalsingh.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 16, 2026

    And for the first time in my life , i felt beautiful. Movie 🎥 : Secretary (2002) Director: Steven Shainberg 🍄 🤍 Photo by Kirpal 💌

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  • Michael A. Martin @michael-a-martin.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 5, 2025

    In a just universe, Commerce Secretary Lutnick would be condemned to spend eternity pushing the Wheel of Pain from the first Conan the Barbarian movie.

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  • haunted ghoulfriend👻🍬 @sliceofwife.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2025

    the movie Secretary (2002) staring James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal

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  • Pat Fuller @bannerite.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 6, 2026

    Rep. Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate former DHS Secretary Noem on Shield of Americas appointment, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie. She'll go down in history as the worst Secretary since the creation of DHS after 9/11."

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  • Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 9, 2025

    America's Kwantung Army? No way, foresight and strategic planning is woke, better to film yourself doing PT while screaming "LETHALITY" at a camera and pointing at a little badge that says "Secretary of War"

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  • 🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.socialBluesky · May 30, 2024

    in the gyllenhall/spader movie Secretary gyllenhall goes out for a date with the guy who played Upham in Saving Private Ryan at a combo italian restaurant and laundromat, which is such a bizarre detail that I assume it's a real place and I want to know more about it.

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  • Chris Wagner @wags2.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 3, 2025

    “Education Secretary flunks math at Senate hearing. Film at 11.”

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  • Pop Crave @popcrave.comBluesky · Dec 18, 2024

    Billie Eilish reveals to Vanity Fair her favorite movie this year is ‘Secretary.’

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  • Legal AF @legalafmtn.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 15, 2026

    Don Lemon: Everything in Trump world is that he wants people to fit the part. That's number one, right? So, he thinks that Pete Hegseth looks good and sort of fits the part of a military dude, so he makes him the Secretary of Defense... Popok: He's casting a movie.

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  • Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 23, 2026

    Dude was the Confederate Secretary of War & an obvious horror movie monster & the gov't was like, "sure, you can rewrite the AL constitution. would you like a pen?" Maybe there's a lesson in here somewhere?

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  • Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    My face watching the new WH Press Secretary

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  • Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.comBluesky · Mar 11, 2026

    Prediction: As we get closer to 2028, there will be an Ivanka propaganda film. (Her husband is the shadow Secretary of State, and there's going to be a succession battle). That is, unless Melania kills it.

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  • TCM Party @tcmparty.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2026

    This church scene treated blacks with more dignity than typical in a 1940s film, causing the Secretary of the NAACP to write a letter to Sturges thanking him. #TCMParty #SullivansTravels ^JW

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  • Kaitlin Ruiz @kaitlinruiz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 15, 2024

    so this movie was produced by Steven Mnuchin, as in Secretary of the Treasury, Trumpian supervillain, less-charismatic relative to the flatfish Steven Mnuchin

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  • born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    BREAKING: Trump Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in Talks to Star in Emoji Movie Sequel

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  • Cinextase 💋 @cinextase.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2025

    What's a movie that you think gets better with each viewing? One of mine is Secretary (2002) ❤️

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  • Spooky Joker 💀 @baseballjoker.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2025

    like the movie Secretary, for instance

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  • Lola Sebastian @lola.nebula.tvBluesky · Mar 24, 2025

    okay but did you know that the screenwriter of the new Snow White movie also wrote Secretary

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  • Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 17, 2024

    between Crash & Secretary, it's hard to know in which movie James Spader was the most James Spader ever

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  • Keith Hanson @k55f5r.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    Kinda reminds me of the movie Secretary.

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  • victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 8, 2024

    I watched “The Secretary” last night and while I understand that was unspeakably risqué for 2002 or whatever, it’s uh, not a good movie

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  • Daily Dot @dailydot.comBluesky · Mar 27, 2025

    Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem wears $60,000 Rolex to film promo inside notoriously brutal El Salvadorian prison: www.dailydot.com/debug/kristi...

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  • Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 27, 2024

    Secretary is a film about getting leathered with your boss

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  • Jake Cole @jakecole.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2026

    Huge news from my source: the Paul McCartney movie is entirely about the making of Temporary Secretary

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  • MJ Mackenzie @redheadmuppet.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2024

    Secretary. That movie is borderline pornographic for me.

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  • Jill S @outseide.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2025

    I’m now reimagining the movie Secretary THANK YOU MEG

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  • William Buchanan @williambuchanan93.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    Tonight's film Secretary (2002)

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  • Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    I would watch a movie where Mickey Mouse becomes Secretary of Murder

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  • aslynn is just a ghoul 👻 @aslynnromano.comBluesky · Feb 26, 2024

    Uhhh - Have you seen the movie Secretary with Maggie Gyllenhaal? 👀

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  • Zach Schonfeld @zachschonfeld.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2026

    Yeah, I'm a fan of A24. A24-year-old movie called Secretary.

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  • Reggie @papabob2.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 9, 2025

    We’re living in a Batman movie with Penguin as President, Riddler as Defense Secretary and Joker as Health Secretary. And the Republicans have checked out. Sucks to be us right now.

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  • cece (they/them) @virg0bab3.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 17, 2026

    sick movie is Secretary, of course 😌

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  • Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 2, 2026

    Hegseth is BY FAR the worst Secretary of Defense (not "War") in US history...and maybe movie history as well! LOL bluevirginia.us/2026/10/frid...

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  • Lil Miss Sinister Fairy Godbitch of the Burrow Mump 🧚‍♂️😈🌾 @fairygodmegan.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2026

    Punch-drunk love Catch me if you can City of god Secretary Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie

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  • Holly Pocket @hollyalisabeth.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2026

    Can i tell yall a secret? 👀 naughty work stuff is such a turn on. I want to reenact parts of the movie Secretary and crawl to you 🤤😮‍💨 suck your cock while you answer emails and bounce on it while you place orders....

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  • MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 1, 2026

    It's like something right out of a horror movie. Pete Hogsex, Secretary of War, just handed over our military & a trillion dollar budget to Elon Musk to run an autonomic War machine under AI. He owns the world's communication system, StarLink. He owns SpaceX, our satellites & space station access.

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  • Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 18, 2026

    He is a Secretary of Movie War

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  • The Evanses @theevanses.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 8, 2026

    Playing while watching my favorite Kink movie #Secretary

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  • glow moss @tolecrien.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2025

    Me when I jack off to Secretary (2002 film)

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  • Foxes @foxylustygrover.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 31, 2026

    Soften up a horror film: Pet Secretary

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  • Dana Fried @leftoblique.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    I have no idea who this is, have not seen either film, and when I looked both movies up on Wikipedia her roles were "hotel clerk" and "candy shop employee". But I'm sure she'll make way more as the next conservative talk show darling or White House Press Secretary than she ever did in film.

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  • Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2024

    Secretary is a bad movie

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  • heartSagan5 @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 22, 2026

    >“Noncitizen voting in a federal election is a federal crime, and knowingly facilitating such conduct is equally unlawful,” McCotter wrote in a letter to county officials and California Secretary of State Shirley Weber that was obtained by the Associated Press. “If persons knowingly tabulate ballots cast by individuals identified by federal agencies as noncitizens, they risk becoming aiders and abettors to a federal crime.” Here it is. They intend on arresting people using "aiding and abetting"

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  • foggy @[email protected]Lemmy · Nov 1, 2026

    Found this for you: * [1 - ICE agent Mario Alberto Morales indicted for aggravated assault after hitting a man with his SUV; faces up to 20 years](https://www.texastribune.org/2026/10/30/ice-agent-indictment-criminal-charges-texas/) * [2 - ICE agent Christian Castro faces state assault and federal false-statement charges after Minneapolis shooting](https://abcnews.com/US/ice-agent-faces-federal-charges-allegedly-lying-minneapolis/story?id=136179269) * [3 - ICE agent Gregory Morgan Jr. charged…

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  • Reddington @katarinarostovairl.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 25, 2026

    Add "Between My Legs" to a movie title. Secretary Between My Legs

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