Sexual harassment is the theme, but here it is the man who is harassed by his new female boss. A high-flying executive, Meredith, is out to ruin her former lover, who she's just beaten to the top job in an electronics company, using every trick in the book.
Written by
Rob Hartill
Plot Synopsis:
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Bob Garvin ( Donald Sutherland), a technology company founder, plans to retire when his company merges with a larger company. Production line manager Tom (Michael Douglas ) expects to be promoted to run the CD-ROM division. Instead, Meredith (Demi Moore), a former girlfriend, is promoted to the post.

Meredith calls Tom into her office to discuss some operations, and forces herself onto him. He attempts to reciprocate, but then rebuffs her. Meredith screams a threat to make him pay for spurning her.The next day, Tom discovers that Meredith has filed a sexual harassment complaint against him with legal counsel Philip. To save the merger from a scandal, DigiCom officials demand that Tom accept reassignment to another location. If Tom does this, he will lose his stock options in the new company. His career will be ruined as the other location is scheduled for sale after the merger which will leave Tom jobless.

Tom receives an e-mail from someone identified only as "A Friend." It directs him to Seattle attorney Catherine(Roma Maffia), who specializes in sexual harassment cases. Tom decides to sue DigiCom, alleging that Meredith is the one who harassed him. The initial mediation goes badly for Tom as Meredith blames him.Garvin proposes that if Tom drops the matter, he will not have to transfer. This causes Tom to suspect that Meredith's accusations have a vulnerability. Tom remembers misdialing a number on his cell phone at the time of his meeting and Meredith throwing his phone (but not hanging up), thus inadvertently creating a recording on a colleague's voicemail of the entire encounter. Tom plays the recording at the next meeting and discredits Meredith. DigiCom agrees to a settlement calling for Meredith to be quietly eased out after the merger closes.

As Tom is celebrating his apparent victory, he receives another e-mail from "A Friend" warning that all is not what it seems. Tom overhears Meredith talking to Philip (Dylan Baker) that even if they slipped him through the harassment accusation, they'll make him look incompetent at next morning's merger conference. If the problems with the CD-ROMs are shown as coming from the production line, which is under Tom's responsibility, he can be fired for cause.Tom attempts look for clues in the company database regarding the talk he overheard. But his access privileges have been revoked. He remembers that the merging company's executives have a DigiCom virtual reality demonstration machine in a hotel room with access to company databases. He breaks in to use it, but as he gets into DigiCom's files, he sees Meredith is already deleting them. Not knowing what to do, Tom receives a call from a Malaysian colleague who gets Tom copies of incriminating memos and videos. They show that Meredith was conspiring with the head of operations in Malaysia, to change the plant and specifications Tom has implemented, so that problems with the CD-ROMs will harm Tom's career.

When Tom makes his presentation at the conference and Meredith brings up the production problems, he shows the memos and a video exposing her involvement in causing defects with the hardware. Meredith says that Tom is mounting a last-ditch effort to take revenge on her.

Meredith must now be fired by Garvin who passes over Tom and names Stephanie Kaplan ( Rosemary Forsyth) to the post. Despite wishing for the position himself, Tom is pleased that his colleague has been promoted. Tom asks Stephanie's son, Spencer, if he knows a "A Friend". Spencer says he is Arthur Friend's research assistant at college. Tom realizes that Spencer accessed Friend's office computer, meaning Stephanie through her son is likely the "friend". Satisfied, Tom returns to his old position at the production division.

Michael Crichton sold the movie rights for $1 million before the novel was published.
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In the United Kingdom, the film's poster was removed from Liverpool bus shelters because it was considered too sexually suggestive, especially in light of the fact that Liverpool County Council had just run an ad campaign promoting the safety of their buses to women traveling alone at night.
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A decade later, Demi Moore was sued for sexual harassment by the caretaker of her Idaho ranch, Lawrence Bass, who claimed that she hit on him in the same manner she used to approach Douglas' character in this film, then fired him after he rejected her advances.
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Before the publication of The Andromeda Strain, Michael Crichton had written under many pseudonyms, one being Michael Douglas.
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Caroline Goodall's role as Michael Douglas' wife was beefed up when the actress came on board. In the original novel, the character disappears for most of the latter part of the story.
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As filming neared completion, Caroline Goodall slipped on a water spillage in her home and broke her shoulder. She was able to film her remaining scenes by taking some painkillers and removing her sling.
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Throughout the movie Tom mentions that Meredith won the Miss New Mexico pageant. Demi Moore who plays Meredith is originally from New Mexico.
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Demi Moore biked 28 miles every morning pre-dawn to get in shape for this film. She'd given birth to her third child a month before she was cast.
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Michael Crichton wrote the character Mark Lewyn for the film specifically with Dennis Miller in mind and the character in the book was somewhat modified for the screenplay to fit Miller's personality.
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Annette Bening was originally set for the female lead. Bening co-starred with Michael Douglas the following year in The American President (1995).
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Michelle Pfeiffer and Geena Davis were considered to play Meredith.
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Milos Forman was originally attached to direct but left the film due to creative differences with Michael Crichton.
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After Tom and Meredith terminate their meeting, Tom goes home to his wife, and while they're in bed they watch a movie with a clip of Fred MacMurray explaining why men fool around. The clip is from The Apartment (1960) starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.
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Michael Douglas and Donald Sutherland have both previously appeared in films directed by Michael Crichton. Douglas appeared in Coma (1978), and Sutherland appeared in The First Great Train Robbery (1978).
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After Milos Forman left the project, Barry Levinson and Alan J. Pakula were in contention to take the helm.
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One of three major theatrical feature films about the subject of sexual harassment that were first released around the time of the early mid-1990s. The movies are 'Oleanna' (1994) written and directed by David Mamet and based on his play; 'Disclosure' (1994) directed by Barry Levinson and based on the novel by Michael Crichton; and 'Gross Misconduct' (1993) directed by George Miller and based on the play by Lance Peters.
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Roma Maffia played a lawyer in this movie and an ex-lawyer in Double Jeopardy (1999).
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Tom is trying to secure Disneyland tickets for a man with the last name Jafar. Of course, Jafar is the name of a Disney character in the 1992 hit Disney film, Aladdin. Jafar also appears at Disneyland theme park.
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Dylan Baker appered in the Spider-Man Trilogy and Michael Douglas appered in both Ant Man and Ant Man and Wasp, all in the Marvel universe
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Catherine Alvarez is named Louise Fernandez in the novel.
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Caroline Goodall previously appeared in Hook (1991) and Schindler's List (1993) for Steven Spielberg, whose film Jurassic Park (1993) was also based on a Michael Crichton novel. Barry Levinson worked with Spielberg on Young Sherlock Holmes (1985).
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Michael Douglas and Demi Moore have both starred in films directed by Rob Reiner. Douglas; The American President (1995) and Moore; A Few Good Men (1992). Incidentally they not only worked with the same director, Reiner, but also the same screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin.
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Barry Levinson: [Ralph Tabakin] (Elevator Attendant) Ralph has appeared in every Levinson picture from Diner (1982) to Liberty Heights (1999).
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The first time, when Meredith Johnson and Tom Sanders are meeting in her office, when Meredith's secretary comes to ask her boss if she could leave earlier right after Meredith grants her wish, the secretary leaves and locks the office door. But when Tom Sanders leaves after he is harassed by Meredith, he opens the door, as if it was not locked.
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When Tom's wife and Catherine are walking into Pike Place Market, there is an extra with a bright blue shirt and a white beard who walks across the screen in two places.
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The stain on Tom Sanders' tie changes position.
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When Tom is using the "Corridor" to look through Digicom's files, the Operations "file drawers" are labelled "Operations Singapore", "Operations Malaysia", etc. Yet when he opens the Malaysia "drawer", the system audio announces it as "Malaysia Operations".
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When Tom is driving to the Bainbridge - Seattle ferry at the beginning of the movie (with the Mt. Rainier in the background), he's actually driving away from the ferry down a dead end road on the island.
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Both Tom and Susan are waiting for a bus to take them to the ferry in the Seattle Transit Tunnel at an Eastbound stop, while the ferry terminal is just a few blocks to the west.
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The mediation is completely unrealistic. In a mediation, no court reporter is present to make a transcript and the lawyers do not cross-examine the opposing parties; it is not a mini-trial. In reality, the parties explain their case to the mediator and the mediator tries to get the two sides to agree on terms.
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When Tom screams in bed after his nightmare, his wife doesn't wake up.
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