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FILM REVIEWS
Audience Harrassment in
"Disclosure"
By Zachary Woodruff
Tuscon Weekly
January 12, 1995
Audience harassment. Michael Crichton's
screenplay is a teasing office drama that pretends to have something worthwhile to say
about sexual harassment. But Crichton's goal, and that of slick director Barry Levinson,
is simply to titillate us, first with a hot "No means no" sex scene and then, in
the movie's second half, with a paranoid corporate conspiracy.
Michael Douglas once again stars, unconvincingly, as a victimized everyman while Demi Moore leaps
brazenly into a role obviously designed to make audiences shout "Get the bitch!"
even louder than they did in Fatal Attraction.
As if that weren't bad enough, the movie's climax is set in virtual reality, where an
angelic Kurt Cobain look-alike helps Douglas find his way through the film's plot holes.
At least nobody can say Michael Crichton's movies aren't interesting.