Disclosure

A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.

• Director:Barry Levinson
• Genre:Drama / Thriller
• Runtime:123 minutes

Cast

Michael Douglas: Tom Sanders
Demi Moore : Meredith Johnson
Donald Sutherland : Bob Garvin
Caroline Goodall : Susan Hendler
Roma Maffia : Catherine Alvarez

Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas), a Seattle software executive, learns that a promotion he’d been expecting has, instead, been given to Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore), a former girlfriend of his from long ago. Later that evening, Meredith calls Tom into her office, ostensibly to discuss the project he is working on. Once Tom arrives, Meredith aggressively tries to resume her romantic relationship with him. Tom resists (although with difficulty) as he is now a married family man.

The next day, Tom discovers that Meredith has filed sexual harassment charges against him. His colleagues refuse to believe his protestations of innocence and the company pressures him to accept reassignment to a new location. Tom does not want to do this as it would destroy both his career and his family. However, since no one believes in his innocence and Meredith is now his boss, he appears to have no choice but to accept reassignment or be fired.

Just as all seems hopeless, Tom receives an e-mail from someone identified only as “A Friend”, directing him to a Seattle attorney (Roma Maffia) who specializes in sexual harassment cases where men are the victims. With the attorney’s help, Tom counter sues, alleging that Meredith harassed him. After Tom successfully makes his case before a court mediator, the company backs down and gives him a large pay raise. As Tom is celebrating his apparent victory, however, he receives another e-mail from “A Friend” warning him that the affair is not over and that all is not what it seems.

Tom eventually realizes that Meredith and the company president (Donald Sutherland) are setting him up to take the fall for defects in the product that Tom is responsible for in order to cover up their involvement in changing the quality control specifications at the plant. They plan to pin the blame on him at a conference the next day announcing a merger with another firm at which Tom will be made to look incompetent, thereby giving them a reason to fire him. Tom cannot access the company computer to prove the existence of the plot because Meredith has locked him out of the system. He spends a tense and frantic night getting the information through a demonstration machine left in the hotel room of the executives of the merging company and from a colleague at the plant who owes him a favor. Armed with this information, he manages to turn the tables on Meredith at the meeting, expose her involvement and get her fired instead of him. Read more

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