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Sleeping With The Enemy [1990]

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Binding : DVD
EAN : 5039036006224
Label : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publisher : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date : 2001-09-17
Title : Sleeping With The Enemy [1990]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 15 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1990-01-01
Region code : 2
Running time : 94
Studio : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 1990

Editorial reviews

Amazon.com
This 1991 thriller by Joseph Ruben (True Believer) 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, etc.--and then, whammo! 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 destroys most of Ruben's momentum and the film's credibility, and the project never quite recovers. --Tom Keogh

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Dolby Digital 2.0
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
5 Videoclips
Trailer
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Synopsis
Soon after marrying, a woman discovers her husband is compulsive, controlling and violent. Faking her own death, she escapes him and begins a new life with a new look in a new town where she'll never have to see him again. Or so she thinks...

Customer reviews

review by: robp2002 date: 2007-05-09 rating:

So awful it hurts
Reasons why this is a bad film:

1. The acting. Bergin's idea of obsessive / scary is to whisper his lines and open his eyes wide. A pine table could easily have replaced Roberts because she is so wooden. And Anderson is creepier and more threatening than the nasty husband; for long stretches of this movie he is the one who is stalking Roberts' character.

2. The direction. Flat, uninspiring and obvious. The film is replete with sign-posted `shocks' and even manages a half-hearted false ending / not-really-dead moment.

3. The script. Packed with lines like `My wife can't swim but I'm sure I can persuade her to join us on a trip on your boat in a storm.' We also get to see Roberts planning her escape to the smallest detail that includes smashing the lights on a set of lampposts and packing a change of clothes. Then following her escape she scampers home, cuts her hair and throws her wedding ring down the toilet, thus wasting time and leaving clues. Why not just put a note on the fridge saying `Ha Ha. I'm not really dead'?

This is a real stinker of a movie. Only worth watching in an ironic, post-modern way or if you are a Roberts completist.

review by: Emma 40 date: 2007-04-22 rating:

SO MOVING IT HURTS
A wonderful film that explores adultery and obsesion.
The Story of lust and the addiction of Julie Johnson for Dick Grimstone and the need of Julie Jackson for Peter Tibbs.
This is a film of split-personality and sexual addiction - but will Julie end up ugly - drunk - and looking older than her years like the character Emma Hyde?
This is Julia Roberts at her very best

review by: date: 2006-02-08 rating:

Different
This is a tricky subject for a film, or it was more so when it was released. Audiences don't like taboo issues raised, they like distinct genres. I'm not sure if I think Patrick is the epitomy of a scary man, yet I guess maybe that's part of the illusion - scary people normally seem pretty normal, sad people seem pretty together. This is a scary film, psychological. It's kind of touching too and I can tell you in parts both situation and character true. I have renewed beleif in Julia after I read during filming Patrick actually did miss the sandbags and really get her pretty hard - she took it, that's a bit more than acting duty as well as putting yourself on the career line to do something different.
Makes you look at people on the street differently and for those who've had a sheltered life think about what it's like for other people behind the scenes, so more than an easy popcorn film. Ultimately positive and hopeful.

review by: gav7h date: 2003-04-15 rating:

Amazing!
This film, is by far, one of the best movies ever. The acting is great, the storyline is great, and the suspense is fantastic.

Storyline: Julia Roberts plays Laura, a young, married woman, who on the surface, leads a happy life. But behind closed doors, her life is a nightmare. Her husband beats her. One night, they go sailing, and Laura falls into the water, and her husband thinks she has drowned, because she could never swim. Only, she had learned to swim, and she had not drowned. She escaped, and swam back to shore, where she gathered her things and fled. She now lives a new life, under a new identity, hoping and praying that her husband won't discover that she's alive and find her. Only, he does, and he is after her..

This film is fantastic, and I have yet to find anyone who didn't like it. If you're buying a new movie, then this is definitly one for your collection. I'd give it 100/100.

review by: derekandanne date: 2001-09-30 rating:
brilliant acting- scary
although now obviously a little dated, this is one of my favourite films with a good story line. Julia Roberts, as always, very good in the role of the nervous and frightened wife and Patrick Bergin at his most calm, quiet yet menacing character. You anticipate what will happen next but the whole film is held together very well with a breathtaking climax.

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