Sleeping With the Enemy [VHS]

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starring: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson, Elizabeth Lawrence, Kyle Secor
directed by: Joseph Ruben

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302096224
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302096227
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishUnknown
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: April 22, 1997
Running Time: 99 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Editorial Review:

Description:
Julia Roberts tries to escape an abusive husband by faking her death. But eventually her past catches up with her in this suspenseful and scary drama.

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

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