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Disclosure	comment	Disclosure is a 1994 thriller film, directed by Barry Levinson and based on a novel by Michael Crichton. The main stars were Michael Douglas and Demi Moore.Tom Sanders (Douglas) is a software executive who has a perfect life. That is until it is ruined upon the arrival of his former girlfriend, Meredith Johnson (Moore). Meredith happens to be his new boss and a lover from a long time ago. She decides its an opportunity to rekindle their sexual relationship and is rather aggressive about it. Since he considers himself happily married he refuses.The following day, Meredith files charges of sexual harassment against him. Nobody believes in his innocence, neither his family, nor his colleagues. His only hope is his new attorney Catherine Alvarez (Roma Maffia), who specializes in sexual harassment cases where men are the victims. He has little problem of settling out of court, only to learn the company has been looking for a scapegoat for some recent problems with the quality of their products. With all the attention to his name, it seems Tom has just volunteered for the job.
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Disclosure / int_129749df	type	All Men Are Perverts
Disclosure / int_129749df	comment	All Men Are Perverts / A Man Is Always Eager: Tom's lawyer warns him that a jury is going to find it hard to believe that "you were alone in a room with Miss Teen New Mexico, and you're the one who said 'no'", especially in light of the fact that she's also his ex-girlfriend. It seems incomprehensible to anyone that Tom could have moved on, be Happily Married, and despite acknowledging that Meredith is very attractive, have no lingering sexual or romantic feelings for her.
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Disclosure / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Disclosure / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Tom's actions, demeanor, and treatment after the incident in Meredith's office echo what female victims have been subjected to—he takes a shower afterwards, he has nightmares, is uncomfortable when discussing the incident, his and Meredith's prior relationship is used against him, him going to her office late at night is regarded as expectation of, or consent to, sexual activity.
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Disclosure / int_19102429	type	Twist Ending
Disclosure / int_19102429	comment	Twist Ending: Turns out the whole "sexual harassment" scandal, however it turned out, was just to put doubt in the minds of everyone when the problems with the new software would be revealed... so Tom could then serve as a convenient scapegoat. To put it short, she sexually harassed him to have a legit cause of action to falsely accuse him in hopes of having him fired from the company to prevent him from tracing the changes she made on the production line.
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Disclosure / int_1f88a426	type	Psycho Ex-Girlfriend
Disclosure / int_1f88a426	comment	Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Meredith. Subverted in that while we're supposed to believe she's this, she actually has entirely different motives. But her overall personality is still a pretty reasonable example.
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Disclosure / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
Disclosure / int_2d363f63	comment	Frame-Up: Meredith frames Tom with sexual harassment after he ultimately refuses her advancements. To say the least she didn't care whatsoever, because she was just looking for an excuse to get him kicked out of Digicom to successfully frame him again with her changes on the production line, which is actually his responsibility.
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Disclosure / int_2e154495	type	Shower of Angst
Disclosure / int_2e154495	comment	Shower of Angst: Tom after his encounter with Meredith. Not wanting to tell his wife what happened, he passes it off as simply feeling "shitty" after a bad day (he was passed over for a promotion).
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Disclosure / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
Disclosure / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: During the second meeting, Catherine Alvarez listens to a tape of Meredith forcing herself on an obviously resistant Tom and tells Meredith that the only thing this proves is that a woman in power can be abusive as a man. Meredith's response is to own being a sexually aggressive woman and saying she likes it. Proclaiming yourself as a sexually aggressive person while in a meeting about sexual harassment allegations toward yourself is probably not the best thing to do...
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Disclosure / int_355e858b	type	Clothing Reflects Personality
Disclosure / int_355e858b	comment	Clothing Reflects Personality: Meredith favors all-black outfits that are a little too short and tight to be completely workplace-appropriate. On the other hand, Susan favors earth-toned outfits that are softer and more flowing while still being professional.
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Disclosure / int_362bdb30	type	Out-Gambitted
Disclosure / int_362bdb30	comment	Out-Gambitted: Hinted at the very end while Tom is seeing Meredith off. He asks whether it ever occurred to Meredith if this all might have been him setting her up. Given how we've seen everything play out, there is some doubt on the subject, but maybe...
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Disclosure / int_3763bcf8	type	False Rape Accusation
Disclosure / int_3763bcf8	comment	False Rape Accusation: Meredith claims that Tom assaulted her. Indeed, had the roles been reversed, she could very well have gone to the police and filed a complaint. It's all a ploy to try to get him fired from Digicom so she can prevent him from tracing the changes she made on the production line and frame him for it.
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Disclosure / int_4aed206f	type	Exact Eavesdropping
Disclosure / int_4aed206f	comment	Exact Eavesdropping: Tom walks by the gym at exactly the right time to hear Meredith and Phil going over their plan to paint him over as the Scapegoat.
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Disclosure / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Disclosure / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Examined like mad. The second and third acts of the movie deal with this on behalf of both genders.
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Disclosure / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Disclosure / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: An interesting In-Universe spin on the trope. When Tom asks a female co-worker if she's on Meredith's side, the woman replies that she worked her tail off to get where she is — as opposed to Meredith, who the co-worker clearly views as having used sexual manipulation to rise to the top, wrapped in feminist trappings. As such, the answer is "no". Stephanie Kaplan later implies she feels the same way.
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Disclosure / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Disclosure / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: "Did it ever occur to you, Meredith, that maybe I set you up?"
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Disclosure / int_80818684	type	Sleeping Their Way to the Top
Disclosure / int_80818684	comment	Sleeping Their Way to the Top: Meredith is accused of having gotten where she is in this manner, as opposed to Kaplan, who worked hard and repeatedly got looked over.
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Disclosure / int_8db4988a	type	Unusual User Interface
Disclosure / int_8db4988a	comment	Unusual User Interface: The Production team has ginned up a prototype virtual reality system that can be used to access all of Digicom's files, called the Corridor. It's a headset and gloves worn by a user on an omni-directional treadmill who is constantly scanned by multiple laser beams. The user can walk around in an ornate room full of filing cabinets and open any one (by physically moving their hands) to access the files within. They can also ask a helper program, which manifests as an angel, to assist them. Any user accessing the files from a standard computer will also appear in the VR space, as a basic human wireframe with a 2D photo of themselves as their "head." Notably, they make it clear that it's not intended for the consumer market and was just made to demonstrate the potential of VR systems. Naturally, after being extensively shown off in the first act, it plays an important role in the third act.
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Disclosure / int_90b66e22	type	Femme Fatale
Disclosure / int_90b66e22	comment	Femme Fatale: Meredith. She's even introduced through the classic "leg shot", no less!
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Disclosure / int_920b5728	type	Sleeping with the Boss
Disclosure / int_920b5728	comment	Sleeping with the Boss: Plays the "female boss, male employee" version of this for all the drama it can. Meredith Johnson, the ex and new boss of Tom Sanders, tries to restart their relationship, but Tom doesn't want to go through with it due to him being married now. Meredith then out-and-out tries to rape him, forcing him to fight her off. The plot gets kicked off when she files charges of sexual harassment against him. It's also implied that she may have very well slept with Garvin. When Tom's lawyer investigates Meredith, she finds that several of her male subordinates have abruptly and inexplicably quit, heavily implying that Tom is not the first nor only employee she's made unwanted advances to.
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Disclosure / int_94e4c8ab	type	Betty and Veronica
Disclosure / int_94e4c8ab	comment	Betty and Veronica: Tom Sanders' wife and Meredith respectively.
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Disclosure / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Disclosure / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Meredith has one when Tom turns the tables on her and manages to get her fired for her involvement in the change of the quality control specifications at the Malaysian plant manufacturing Digi Com's new advanced CD-ROM drive.
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Disclosure / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Disclosure / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: After his initial resistance to Meredith's aggressive sexual advances, Tom is overcome with lust and begins making out with her and ripping her clothes off. But when he sees his face reflected in a pane of glass, he realizes what he's doing and stops himself before having sex with Meredith.
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Disclosure / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Disclosure / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: While her novel counterpart was definitely this, Meredith in the film takes this up a notch as she is portrayed as being quite a bit more calculating and arrogant then in the novel, with less emphasis on her volatile behavior and lack of self-control. Even when she speaks to Tom after she's defeated, she acts this way in the movie, as opposed to her basically crying out loud how she was screwed over unfairly by the people she trusted the most in the novel.
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Disclosure / int_a2492aff	type	Dogged Nice Guy
Disclosure / int_a2492aff	comment	Dogged Nice Guy: Tom Sanders, sort of.
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Disclosure / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
Disclosure / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Meredith is blonde in the novel, but she has brown hair in the film.
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Disclosure / int_b034d333	type	Film Noir
Disclosure / int_b034d333	comment	Film Noir: While the crimes in the film include corporate corruption (as well as an immoral act in the form of sexual harassment), the content tropes of the style are present in full force — particularly the Femme Fatale, the plot involving false accusations, the series of twists where nothing is as it seems, and the male "sap" set up to take the fall.
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Disclosure / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Disclosure / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: The basis of the plot.
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Disclosure / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Disclosure / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: Meredith, Arthur Kahn and Phil Blackburn. A much more clear case from the book. It's not 100 percent confirmed, but very much implied that Phil was helping Meredith from the very beginning to the very end about every unlawful act she did in the story. Garvin to a lesser extent (it's pretty much clear he had no idea about Meredith's deceptions).
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Disclosure / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Disclosure / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: Tom is offered an identical position at the company's Texas office as a means of calming the furor over the lawsuit. He refuses — aside from refusing to be punished when he hasn't done anything wrong, he also knows that the Texas office is due to be closed soon.
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Disclosure / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Disclosure / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Caroline Alvarez was originally named Louise Fernandez in the novel. The drive codenamed "Twinkle" in the novel is changed to "Arcamax" in the film.
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Disclosure / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Disclosure / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Stephanie Kaplan, who for most of the movie seems to not want to get involved in the scandal, but ultimately turns out to be Tom's mysterious "friend". As such, when she is promoted to VP in Meredith's place, Tom is perfectly okay with it.
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Disclosure / int_f829585a	type	Beauty Is Bad
Disclosure / int_f829585a	comment	Beauty Is Bad: Meredith.
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