VHS : Sleeping with the Enemy
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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - amazing performance with exciting twist
Some time ago I have watched this movie not once and not even twice. But I want to go back to watching it over again. Why? I've lived the story myself. It is not a fiction. It could be reality. And I believe there are many stories untold that are even more frightening. There are truly people out there who hide their persona well. And there are women out there for real who for their own reason get involved with individuals like those. I believe this movie was empowering to all open-minded people who ... Read More
Rating: - Great service, great product
Prompt response from seller, and the DVD was in good working condition. I would use this seller again.
Rating:  - If you've seen the film Enough, you know what to expect here...
While on vacation on the beach, housewife Laura fakes her own death to escape her obsessive compulsive and abusive husband, Martin. Laura has painstakingly planned her escape, knowing that if he finds her she's dead. She rebuilds her life in Iowa, where she's secreted away her mother and she begins to live an almost haphazard life, reveling in the fact that no one can tell her what to do. What she didn't plan for was her future, having no forged paperwork to get a new job and not even having established ... Read More
Rating: - Almost makes a point.
Sleeping with the Enemy starring Julia Roberts deals with domestic violence but also starting a new life after such a horrible situation. Roberts pulls off a subtle and sympathetic performance, this movie was released right after the success of Pretty Woman. Roberts's character in the film fakes her own death to escape her abusive husband. Once her creep hubby realizes she is very much alive, he tracks her down and makes her life unbearable. I like this movie but it does have flaws, decide for yourself.
Rating: - Sleeping With the Enemy
This was an excellent movie. I feel like it depicted domestic violence very well, although not all cases are as severe as this one.
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