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Five Wives, Three Secretaries & Me (1998)
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For her 25th birthday, New York filmmaker Tessa Blake flew to Houston to receive a million dollar trust fund from her father.
Six months later, she went back with a movie camera.
Five Wives, Three Secretaries and Me is the lovingly honest and compelling portrait of 88-year-old multi-millionaire oil tycoon, hotshot lawyer and former Hollywood playboy Thomas Blake, as told by his ex-wives, ex-wives' ex-husbands, family friends, loyal employees and even Blake himself. As Tessa Blake captures a series of intimate interviews and quirky tales of the Texas jet set, this larger-than-life serial monogamist is revealed as irascible and insensitive, benevolent and racist, eccentric and ever enigmatic, all leading to a final emotional confrontation that the Seattle Weekly called "one of the most powerful father/daughter moments ever seen in a documentary." This is the surprising story of a mythic man, his five wives, three secretaries and one filmmaker about to discover the remarkable father whose love and legacy she yearns to understand.
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