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''Disclosure'' is a 1994 erotic thriller film directed by Barry Levinson, starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore. It is based on Michael Crichton's novel of the same name. The cast also includes Donald Sutherland, Rosemary Forsyth and Dennis Miller. The film is a combination mystery and thriller about office politics and intrigue in the computer industry in the mid-1990s. The main focus of the story, from which the film and book take their titles, is the issue of sexual harassment. The film invites viewers to critically examine topics such as the ease with which allegations of sexual harassment can destroy one's career and whether a double standard exists when such allegations are levied by men or women. ==Plot summary== Technology company DigiCom is about to merge with a publishing company, and company founder and president Bob Garvin (Donald Sutherland) plans to retire. Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas), head of manufacturing for the Seattle-based advanced products division, expects to be promoted to run the division, which is to be spun off as a publicly traded company after the merger. However, he learns that the post has instead gone to operations executive Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore), a former girlfriend. Garvin introduces Meredith to her new subordinates. Co-workers like Mark Lewyn (Dennis Miller) comment on how attractive Meredith is. Others, like chief financial officer Stephanie Kaplan (Rosemary Forsyth), seem to be aware that Tom and Meredith had a relationship. Late that evening, Meredith calls Tom into her office, ostensibly to discuss severe defects with DigiCom's new advanced CD-ROM drive, being manufactured in Malaysia. Instead, Meredith aggressively tries to give him oral sex. Tom resists with difficulty, as he is now a married family man. Although he struggles, she continues to force herself on him. Tom is tempted and becomes aggressive himself, but after catching a glimpse of himself in a mirror, he regains control and pushes Meredith away. As he leaves, Meredith screams a threat to make him pay for spurning her. The next day, Tom discovers that Meredith has accused him of sexually harassing her. To save the merger, DigiCom officials demand that Tom accept reassignment to the company's Austin facility. If Tom does this, he will lose his stock options in the new company, ruining his career. However, since no one believes his story and Meredith is now his boss, he appears to have no choice. Just as all seems hopeless, Tom receives an e-mail from someone identified only as "A Friend." It directs him to Seattle attorney Catherine Alvarez (Roma Maffia), who specializes in sexual harassment cases. Tom then threatens to sue DigiCom, alleging that Meredith is the one who harassed him. The initial mediation goes badly for Tom as Meredith turns everything around, claiming he pursued her, then was doubly angry over the promotion and being spurned by her. Her lies are plausible, since Meredith's assistant had seen Tom rubbing her shoulders (at her request), and Tom had not mentioned to his wife that his late meeting would be with a woman. Garvin unexpectedly proposes privately to Tom that both sides let the matter drop, allowing Tom to avoid the transfer. This causes Tom to suspect that Meredith's accusations have a vulnerability. However, with Tom's assistant admitting that he rubs her shoulders and pats her bottom, with the company's cleaning woman (who may have seen Meredith half-undressed and hardly harassed) having disappeared "out of town," and with Alvarez having discovered that "A friend" is Arthur Friend, a University of Washington geology professor who is currently in Nepal on sabbatical, Tom realizes he may have no choice but to accept Garvin's offer. In the nick of time, However, Tom remembers misdialing a number on his cell phone at the time of his meeting and Meredith grabbing his phone (but not hanging up), thus inadvertently creating a recording on a colleague's voice mail of the entire encounter. Tom plays the recording at the next meeting and discredits Meredith completely. 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. Afterward, he sees Meredith talking to company legal counsel Philip Blackburn (Dylan Baker). Suspicious, Tom overhears them saying that without the harassment accusation, they'll make him look incompetent at next morning's press conference announcing the merger. If the problems with the CD-ROMs are shown as coming from the production line, which is his responsibility, he can be fired for cause. Tom's access privileges have been revoked, so he's unable to get proof from the company database. He remembers that the merging company's executives have a DigiCom virtual reality demonstration machine in a hotel room. 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 the head of the manufacturing unit in Malaysia had been conspiring with Meredith, Blackburn, and Garvin to change the plant specifications Tom implemented to reduce costs and make the company a more attractive merger target. But, instead of saving money, their changes to the CD-ROMs actually increased costs, problems, and delays. With the merger coming up, they needed a scapegoat. When Tom makes his presentation at the conference and Meredith brings up the production problems, he turns the tables by showing the memos and a video exposing her involvement: it was Meredith who satisfied the Malaysian government's demand for human labor, ordered installation of lower-capacity air handlers, and weakened other production control specifications that led to the defects with the hardware. Meredith unsuccessfully proclaims that Tom is mounting a last-ditch effort to take revenge on her. Meredith is fired, making it appear Tom will now helm DigiCom's Seattle operations. Garvin instead names Kaplan to the post. Tom heartily approves. Kaplan's son, Spencer, attends the University of Washington, and when Tom asks if he knows professor Arthur Friend, Spencer replies that he's Friend's research assistant. Tom innocently observes that, with professor Friend on sabbatical in Nepal, Spencer would thus have access to Friend's office and computer, meaning Kaplan, through her son, is likely the "friend" responsible for helping him. Spencer gives him a knowing look. At the end of the film, Tom is left in the same position he was at the beginning. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Disclosure (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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