The Secretary Review

Disgruntled secretary Diedra turns to murder and blackmail after being turned down for promotion.

by William Thomas |
Published on
Release Date:

01 Jan 1995

Running Time:

94 minutes

Certificate:

15

Original Title:

Secretary, The

An inferior and ultimately predictable yarn with deranged secretary (Shelia Kelley) hatching a plot against her stockbroker boss (Mel Harris) by kidnapping her little girl, dropping a car on her husband and framing her for the murder of a fellow employee. Although this is suspense by numbers and trawls through a minefield of well-worn plot devices borrowed from Fatal Attraction and The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, it’s handled with a certain zeal and Kelley does an effective turn as the typist from hell.

Well worn plot, and very little new to talk of.
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