Disclosure (1994)
Good God what a bad movie! I watched it for the first time last night and couldn't believe how bad and dirty it was. I'm usually a fan of Michael Douglas but this was just horrible. Did we need to hear 100 times that his penis was in Demi Moore's mouth? Donald Sutherland is underused and just stands or sits and smiles. Demi is sort of hot, sort of fat and has a weird Gary Oldman in Dracula hairstyle going on. The movie is trying to say something about how women in power can be just as bad and abusive as men but it fails miserably by combining this message with some crappy, virtual reality nonsense that looks really dated.
And what's up with Michael Douglas and all the women in his movies? He fucks attractive women and then they turn on him and try to destroy him or kill him.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 12, 2025 3:01 AM
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I loved this movie. Roma Maffia was terrific.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 11, 2025 2:24 PM
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R1 What did you love about it?
Roma Maffia is a horrible name btw.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 11, 2025 2:44 PM
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Demi Moore is no Sharon Stone.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 11, 2025 2:49 PM
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Sharon Stone is no Glenn Close.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | September 11, 2025 2:53 PM
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Michael Crichton was a conservative dick.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 11, 2025 3:00 PM
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“Disclosure” was nothing more than a package deal for Crichton. Published at the beginning of the year, paperback by September, movie by December.
The hardcover did have a cool cover designed by Chip Kidd (my idol) where the paper was translucent and you saw the title underneath it on the book itself rather than on the paper cover.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 11, 2025 3:03 PM
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Fun movie. The climax where Douglas was hiding from Demi's avatar in his VR headset was hilarious.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 11, 2025 3:06 PM
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Forgettable 90s potboiler. I just remember it was set in Seattle and had something to do with a corporate takeover.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 11, 2025 3:10 PM
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Get back here and finish what you started!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 11, 2025 3:10 PM
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I saw it for the air conditioning that summer!
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 11, 2025 3:23 PM
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R6 nailed it. This was back in that short period where Crichton could fart on a typewriter and it would sell ten million copies. God-DAMNIT, Americans are stupid cunts!
John Grisham had the same honeymoon period, and he churned out twice as many stinkers that got made into shitty movies.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 11, 2025 3:49 PM
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Yet it was a box office hit. It's like reverse MeToo.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 11, 2025 10:27 PM
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Laurel and Hardy didn't like the movie either.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 12, 2025 1:34 AM
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It’s a time capsule now. I remember at the time I saw it that it was mostly forgettable, not terrible but not good.
The VR contraption in the hotel suite, the miles of faxed documents, the LCD mobile phone interface, the “email” interfaces, all of it is quaint to see today.
Dylan Baker is such a good character actor and Roma Maffia steals every scene she’s in, in every movie she’s in.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 12, 2025 1:43 AM
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HA HA HA! "Reversed sexual harassment"!
Ha.
"Sexual Harassment is about powa, not sex".
HA!
50 year old syphilitic horn dog is practically raped by 30 year old woman!
HA!.
Utterly ridiculous and one of my very favorite Michael Douglas films.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 12, 2025 2:09 AM
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NYT Janet Maslin made a funny.
The storytelling of Disclosure is too forced and polemical to be on a par with better Crichton tales like Jurassic Park. This time, it's the author who's the dinosaur.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 12, 2025 3:01 AM
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