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Name: Sleeping with the Enemy
Released: 1991-2-8
Cast: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson

Sleeping with the Enemy

R
1h 38m
1991

20%

age 15+

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Laura Burney (Julia Roberts) is not just the trophy wife of rich investment counselor Martin (Patrick Bergin). She is also a battered wife. After faking her own death by drowning, she changes her name and relocates to Cedar Falls, Iowa – and even begins a new relationship. But once Martin learns of the ruse, he comes to Iowa to reclaim his “possession.”

Director:

Joseph Ruben

Producer:

Leonard Goldberg

Writer:

Ron Bass

Cast:

Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

20%

Critics Consensus: A game Julia Roberts gives it her all, but Sleeping with the Enemy is one stalker thriller that's unlikely to inspire many obsessions of its own.

Reviews

Maclean's Magazine

Brian D. Johnson

Roberts evokes sympathy, not just for playing the victim of an unforgivably bad husband, but for becoming the victim of an unforgivably bad movie.

Spousal-abuse thriller has violence and language.

Sleeping With the Enemy is a flat tire of a movie. Looks good -- white sidewalls, chrome spokes -- but it flaps and clunks and never gets to vroom.

...ultimately undone by a relentless emphasis on obvious and downright laughable elements that'll surely leave even the most ingenuous viewer sporadically rolling their eyes.

June 21, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 15+

Common Sense Says

Spousal-abuse thriller has violence and language.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Sleeping with the Enemy is a 1991 drama, based on a 1987 novel by Nancy Price, that pretends to be about domestic abuse but feels more like a horror movie played for suspense and chills. A wealthy financier brutally hits his young beautiful wife and then apologizes for what he euphemistically calls "quarreling." He controls her every move, strangling her freedom until she meticulously puts into action her long-planned escape scheme. Stalking, attempted murder, actual murder, gun violence, clothed sex, and language including "f--k" and "s--t" make this iffy for kids.