**SPOILERS** The movie "Disclosure" is more about corporate climbing and back-stabbing then sexual harassment like your made, by it's advertising campaign, to believe it is. There's the handsome and personable, as well as highly competent, head of manufacturing at the giant computer chip company Digicom Tom Sanders, Michael Douglas, being passed up for the vice president slot at the company for the very sexy and conniving head of operations Meredith Johnson, Demi Moore.
Were informed very early in the film by Tom, to his fellow employees, that he and Meredith had a very serious sexual relationship years ago before he married his wife Susan, Corline Goodell, which makes Tom even more upset that his former lover will now be his boss at Digicon. Swallowing his pride and taking the whole thing, his being passed up for promotion, in stride Tom sees nothing suspicious in being invited by his new boss Meredith to her pad after work to discuss business matters. Before he can get to the bottom line of the weekly profit report Tom ends up being attacked set upon and almost raped by a very wild and aggressive Meredith, acting like a young filly in heat, that has him run for his life out of her apartment, almost tripping over himself, with his pants still hanging down to his knees.
Back at work the next day Tom, who was willing to put the whole sordid episode with Meredith behind him,is slapped with a sexual harassment suit by Meredith which can not only cost him his job but his marriage and reputation and make him virtually unemployable in the computer software business. Trying to fight off Meredith's suit Tom counter-sues which if made public will prevent a planned merger of Digicom with Colney Electronics that will raise the company's stock price value to over 100 million dollars
The stakes being too high for Digicom president Bob Garvin, Donald Sutherland, to ignore gives him two option in dealing with Tom and that's either to farm Tom out to his new plant in Austin Texas which will completely disrupt his, and his wife Susan and two children, life here in Seattle or just plain fire him with the stigma of being a sexual predator where he'll be unable to get a job anyway in the computer software business in a managerial, or any other, position.
Having a hearing on his counter-suit ,as well as Meredith sexual harassment suit against him, Tom exposed his accuser as being a very manipulative and driven young woman who uses her looks to entice and then destroy, like a black widow spider, those she feels are a threat to her or in her way, like Tom, from climbing to the very top. Tom really gets a big lift in his hard fought efforts to exonerate and free himself from the tight and suffocating strangle hold that Meredith has on him when he recovers a tape that was made when he called, or miscalled, someone from work Mark Lewyn, Dennis Miller,to confirm his meeting with his boss just seconds before the out of control, and hot to trot, Meredith assaulted him at her suite that recorded an X-rated ten minute blow by blow description of the entire shocking incident. It's then when you, and Tom, realize the real purpose behind Meredith's strange and bizarre behavior and it doesn't have at all to do with Tom's sexy goods looks, which must have come as a big shock and disappointment to him, but with him being in the position of exposing her even more stranger managerial habits and activities back at the Digicom main computer chip plant in Kuala Lumpur Malasya the year before that is now costing the company tens of millions of dollars, in lost revenue from defective computer chips, that the sneaky Meredith want's to have the unsuspecting Tom take the blame for but first she has to get him fired so he won't have access to the company's files and records to prove his innocence and at the same time Meredith's guilt.
Somewhat decent, but very complicated, movie about the movers and shakers in the top positions of cooperate America and how they use their power and influence, and in the case of Meredith Johnson her very sexy body, to get ahead and stay on top using all the assets available to them to keep up and coming young hot-shots as well as those senior executives over them from unseating and preventing them from reaching and staying on their high perch in the company that their employed at.
Were informed very early in the film by Tom, to his fellow employees, that he and Meredith had a very serious sexual relationship years ago before he married his wife Susan, Corline Goodell, which makes Tom even more upset that his former lover will now be his boss at Digicon. Swallowing his pride and taking the whole thing, his being passed up for promotion, in stride Tom sees nothing suspicious in being invited by his new boss Meredith to her pad after work to discuss business matters. Before he can get to the bottom line of the weekly profit report Tom ends up being attacked set upon and almost raped by a very wild and aggressive Meredith, acting like a young filly in heat, that has him run for his life out of her apartment, almost tripping over himself, with his pants still hanging down to his knees.
Back at work the next day Tom, who was willing to put the whole sordid episode with Meredith behind him,is slapped with a sexual harassment suit by Meredith which can not only cost him his job but his marriage and reputation and make him virtually unemployable in the computer software business. Trying to fight off Meredith's suit Tom counter-sues which if made public will prevent a planned merger of Digicom with Colney Electronics that will raise the company's stock price value to over 100 million dollars
The stakes being too high for Digicom president Bob Garvin, Donald Sutherland, to ignore gives him two option in dealing with Tom and that's either to farm Tom out to his new plant in Austin Texas which will completely disrupt his, and his wife Susan and two children, life here in Seattle or just plain fire him with the stigma of being a sexual predator where he'll be unable to get a job anyway in the computer software business in a managerial, or any other, position.
Having a hearing on his counter-suit ,as well as Meredith sexual harassment suit against him, Tom exposed his accuser as being a very manipulative and driven young woman who uses her looks to entice and then destroy, like a black widow spider, those she feels are a threat to her or in her way, like Tom, from climbing to the very top. Tom really gets a big lift in his hard fought efforts to exonerate and free himself from the tight and suffocating strangle hold that Meredith has on him when he recovers a tape that was made when he called, or miscalled, someone from work Mark Lewyn, Dennis Miller,to confirm his meeting with his boss just seconds before the out of control, and hot to trot, Meredith assaulted him at her suite that recorded an X-rated ten minute blow by blow description of the entire shocking incident. It's then when you, and Tom, realize the real purpose behind Meredith's strange and bizarre behavior and it doesn't have at all to do with Tom's sexy goods looks, which must have come as a big shock and disappointment to him, but with him being in the position of exposing her even more stranger managerial habits and activities back at the Digicom main computer chip plant in Kuala Lumpur Malasya the year before that is now costing the company tens of millions of dollars, in lost revenue from defective computer chips, that the sneaky Meredith want's to have the unsuspecting Tom take the blame for but first she has to get him fired so he won't have access to the company's files and records to prove his innocence and at the same time Meredith's guilt.
Somewhat decent, but very complicated, movie about the movers and shakers in the top positions of cooperate America and how they use their power and influence, and in the case of Meredith Johnson her very sexy body, to get ahead and stay on top using all the assets available to them to keep up and coming young hot-shots as well as those senior executives over them from unseating and preventing them from reaching and staying on their high perch in the company that their employed at.