You don't have to be a masochist to be a secretary, but it helps. In a breakthrough role, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a young mentally-unbalanced young woman who achieves peace of mind at the hand of her perfectionist boss, underplayed with equally repressed glee by James Spader. Lee Holloway enjoys her new job working for a demanding lawyer. As their relationship grows, it enters strange territory. Punishment for typing errors leads to bondage and leather saddles, and, well... you get the idea. Stranger still -- it all seems normal, somehow. The first s&m screwball comedy, perhaps.