Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 32
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 25
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Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 8
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Hot off her success in Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts starred in this thriller about a battered wife stalked by her abusive husband. Roberts plays Laura Burney, the wife of a rich investment counselor, Martin (Patrick Bergin). Martin appreciates his wife as a trophy, but at home he abuses her for not keeping the house as clean as he would like it. The verbal abuse descends into physical violence --so much so that Laura decides to disappear rather than live a life under Martin as a brutalized slave.
Feb 8, 1991 Wide
Sep 2, 2003
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Julia Roberts
Laura Burney/Sara Water... -
Patrick Bergin
Martin Burney -
Kevin Anderson
Ben Woodward -
Elizabeth Lawrence
Chloe -
Kyle Secor
Fleishman -
Claudette Nevins
Dr. Rissner -
Tony Abatemarco
Locke -
Marita Geraghty
Julie -
Harley Venton
Garber -
Nancy Fish
Woman on Bus -
Bonnie Cook
Mrs. Nepper -
Graham Harrington
Minister -
Sharon Robinson
Sharon the Nurse -
Sandi Shackelford
Edna -
John D. Ward
Theater Student -
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All Critics (33) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (25) | DVD (4)
It's the sort of movie where all of the characters and plot moves (if one wants to call them that) are tailored to the thriller mechanics and have no existence apart from their crude functionality.
Top CriticRoberts is terrific in a layered part. Anderson brings an edge to the nice-guy-next-door role, and the dark, dashing Bergin is chillingly twisted.
Tacky.
Julia Roberts, a beauty who can also act, is one of the best things in recent movies. By my count she hasn't made a really good movie yet.
The film begins as an unyielding look at a battered wife, and ends as another one of those thrillers where the villain toys with his victim and the audience.
No one in this movie can be accused of doing his best.
...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.
Sleeping With the Enemy teeters constantly on the verge of silliness but director Joseph Ruben keeps the cornball melodrama scaled down to a pleasant lull.
a testament to Roberts' early star power and little else.
Moral: Never marry anyone who finds 'Symphony Fantastique' erotic.
The story goes by the numbers.
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