A recently institutionalized woman finds darkly intimate romance with her demanding lawyer boss.
Darkly comic, with dry wit. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Prime Video, Kanopy (free), Hoopla (free), The Roku Channel (free), Plex (free) and Tubi (free).
Moderate sex and nudity, and some violence, about what an R should carry.
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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.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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