This S&M-light was kinky enough to titillate but less graphic than porn so as to be more suggestive of the more hard core rubbish. This stylish, off-center movie about a lawyer and his secretary probes more about a quirky lawyer and the relationship than any real deviant sex story. There is a good metamorphosis of Maggie Gyllenhaal into a woman while James Spader again gets to reel off another sleeper hit (reprising a suggestive character from his days of Sex, Lies, and Video fame). This is a delightful, rewarding movie that is off balance enough, sensually different but tasteful, and serious but never dramatically over-mental to probe the nature of employment relationships, love, growing up, and going after something, not giving up.