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Directed by Barry Levinson from the novel by Michael Crichton (also the film's producer), and starring Michael Douglas, Demi Moore and Donald Sutherland, DISCLOSURE was one of 1994's biggest box office hits, but at the time was also vilified by some as borderline misogynistic because it featured an antagonist who was a powerful corporate career woman (Moore) accused of the sexual harassment of a man under her (Douglas). And considering the time in which it was released (when "psycho women" films such as FATAL ATTRACTION, SINGLE WHITE FEMALE, THE HAND THE ROCKS THE CRADLE and THE TEMP were the cinematic fad), it's easy to see how it's premise may have sounded as such. But the agenda of Crichton and Levinson's drama (part sexual politics, part high tech mystery, part corporate thriller) was to jolt audiences - particularly men - out of the dangerous complacency of thinking that claims of sexual harassment were "overblown, whiny exaggerations from those who can't keep up with the boys" by shifting the point of reference / putting the shoe on the other foot in making the victim a once powerful corporate male up-and-comer who is now faced in the work place, at home, and even in a courtroom setting with accusations that he's making it all up in an attempt to blackmail his employer; that in some regards he was responsible or could have stopped things if and when he wanted; and also with the possibility that if he proceeds with legal action it could not only jeopardize his own career but that of others around him. Any of this sound familiar? In the wake of recent cases involving Harvey Weinstein, Roger Ailes and others, damned if DISCLOSURE doesn't seem as if it were written and filmed last week. Time for an updated look!
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