Sleeping With The Enemy [VHS] [1991]

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Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
This 1991 thriller by Joseph Ruben (ITrue Believer/I) works up to a point: Julia Roberts plays an abused wife who fakes her death and starts anew under a different identity in Iowa. Her psychopathic husband (Patrick Bergin) figures it out and stalks her and her new boyfriend (Kevin Anderson). The best part of the film is the moody isolation of Roberts's life with Bergin. Ruben ingeniously stakes out the story by presenting what looks like an ideal life between the two--a nice house on the ocean, a seemingly healthy sex life, before pulling the rug out from under you feet. Vital to the plot but less interesting is everything afterward, but that's less an inherent script problem than it is obvious studio pressure to push Roberts as a cute star. There's even a sequence where the actress tries on a series of hats while Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" plays on the soundtrack. Such insistent valentines to Roberts destroy most of Ruben's momentum and the film's credibility, and the project never quite recovers. --ITom Keogh/I

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2003-04-13 rating:
sleeping with the enemy
I found the film a fantastic interpretation of how completly loanly, trapped, and not forgetting just how fearfull someone would feel if in this situation. Julia Roberts portrat of this charector was excelent she brought out all sorts of emotions from my feeling fear, hurt, worthless, anger, I felt I was alongside her charector wanting to help her I found myself shouting at the screen on a number of accasions, also the way I was made to feel towards the husband was quiet real. The ending was outstanding I got to the point of very vilent thoughts being made towards the husband. A great insight to how domestic vilence can be at this extream and how difficult it would be for the wife to escape the violence the amount of planing it would take and the time this would take while still being in extream danger. The is a great film worth watching time and time again.

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review by: date: 2001-04-08 rating:
absolutely magnificantly gripping/romantic film
Fantastic film. I have lost count how many times I have seen it and still go back for more. Julia Roberts is excellent as usual and every time I really enjoy the ending. The film has some good music in as well - bonus !


review by: rosecampbell date: 2000-03-20 rating:
An excellent portrayal of the effects of domestic violence
This film portrays accurately the behaviour of a perpretrator of domestic violence and the feelings of the wife who is abused. It will keep you sitting on the edge of your seat.

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