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Summary: A must see suspenser!
Review: I remember seeing this movie when it came out in the theater and jumping out of my seat. The cruel, punishing and sadistic husband of Julia's matches Julia's scenes scene for scene in his acting. Onw watches this movie and wonders how could a man with all he has, money, a multimillion dollar house, and a perfect, beautiful wife like Julia treat her like that??? The only problems with this movie is that Julia flees only to end up in a house in Iowa for $700 dollars a month!!! How can she afford that with no job? And how did she get a job in the library even with that annoying bearded guys help with no social security number?? Of course we all know that a big scary house was necessary to build thrills and suspense and that it does! The ending is TERRIFIC as is the acting.
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Summary: Good if you don't mind a dose of sentimentalism
Review: Brutal husband abuses pretty wife, she flees in disguise to the Midwest, is tracked down and does what a woman has to do. It's not a bad movie, but it doesn't quite make up its mind how sinister it wants to be or how sentimental. Virtually all the tension is lost once Julia Roberts meets a "new guy" - one of those bearded, sincere types who should be excluded from all movie scripts. From too early on, you know she's going to be all right, once she's had a good weep and tried on a few different hats.
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Summary: A Great Movie!
Review: There are so few good scary movies made that are suspenseful without all the gore. I wish the studios could come up with more films like this one, which is not only scary but has great visuals, a great story, and the lovely Julia Roberts. By the way, the music a previous reviewer questioned is probably "Symphonie Fantastique" by Hector Berlioz. It was also played in "The Shining."
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Summary: Entertaining and Creepy!!!
Review: The critics were crazy to hate this movie. It is full of suspense, teriffic Cape Cod scenery, and pure 100% entertainment. I will never get sick of this movie and advise everyone who reads this to see it.
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Summary: A wonderful movie. I can watch it over, & over again.
Review: I think this was an excellent movie. I have been trying for a while to find out what is the name of the classical music that was played in the movie. It was the music that Julia Roberts that scared her when she heard it. Her ex-husband played it when he found out where she was living. Please let me know who the classical musician is, and the title of the song, PLEASE !!!
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Summary: One major blooper...
Review: Unless she knew that her husband was going to force her to go on a boat or that she set up something with the guy who owned the boat why would she be taking swimming lessons? I liked the movie, glad I rented it - but wouldn't own it.
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Summary: This is a fine movie
Review: I think this movie have good quality . The cast do a good job and suspense works well. Julia Roberts is credible as a mistreated woman and Patrick Bergin don't perform the overacting psycho (thanks for this, Patrick ).At some points get slow but as a whole the movie have good rythm.
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Summary: One major blooper...
Review: Julia Roberts quickly established herself as one of the most luminescent stars in Hollywood. She has a face which, much like
Garbo's, the camera just never tires of viewing. She can use that face to express pensive worry, both spirited and icy determination, and, of course, her smile can melt glaciers. She also has a talent for rising above middling to mediocre material, so you never blame her the artistic shortcomings of the films she's in. Unfortunately, Hollywood quickly caught wise to her amazing "star power" and just as quickly developed
the "Julia Roberts vehicle."
There's something about "Julia Roberts vehicles" which I find annoying. Ulike the "women's pictures" of the 30's and 40's,
starring the likes of Katherine Hepburn, Bette Davis and Joan
Crawford, which featured strong women confronting and overcoming a lot of conflict, "Julia Roberts vehicles" fall generally into two groups: There's the romantic comedy, which is usually a shameless retelling of the Cinderella myth, like "Pretty Woman,"
or there's the shameless feminist propaganda vehicle, like this one. In the latter vehicle, all men are beasts, and even the good ones are not redeemed until they finally learn to submit to Julia's will.
In this movie, Julia plays the spunky beleagured wife of the husband-from-hell, played by Patrick Bergin. Bergin's character is such a control-freak, he's almost as manipulative as this movie is. One day, Julia fakes her own death in a swimming accident, and runs away, back to her childhood home in the Midwest
to start a new life. It's a bit amazing in the way the filmmakers
expect you to believe that husband-from-hell is bright enough to figure out there's something wrong with his wife's "death," but takes 2/3 of the movie to figure out where she's gone. No matter, that gives our heroine time to start a relationship with a somewhat nerdy, non-threatening, "liberated" male played by Kevin Anderson.
The real surprise of this movie (and perhaps the only one) is the way it engages your interest in spite of how obviously manipulative it is. Julia has a lot to do with this, always conveying just the right combination of spirited spunk with disarming vulnerablity. Best part of the picture? The use of
the "Witches' Sabbath" movement from Berlioz' "Symphonie Fantastique" to set up the final confrontation between the forces
of good and evil. It makes Patrick Bergin more menacing than if he wore a Darth Vader suit!
You could do worse.
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Summary: My reading group says: read the book.
Review: Nancy Price is a spell-binding writer who knows how to dodge every Hollywood cliché, as well as any happy ending Hollywood can imagine. Julia Roberts had only one man to run from-the Sara Burney in this novel has three.
The first man she must escape is her husband, a controlling martinet who wants a child-wife to discipline and abuse. But two other dangerous men wait where Sara tries to hide-every woman in my reading group has met men like these: men who see women as the adversary to be tamed and used. The boy next door craves a sex object. The young professor distrusts women: he wants a housekeeper-wife who will further his career. In the world they see, everyone sleeps with the enemy.
But Sara isn't a child, an object or a servant. She senses her danger and escapes, covering her tracks, leaving no dead man inside her door for the police to find. She's going back, Martin Burney's widow, to claim her happy ending: the home she had to abandon. Sara dreams of it as the book closes-every room's light and scent, every creak of the floor, every dish in the cupboards.
My reading group cheered as we imagined Sara, home safe, ready to look for a marriage not shared by enemies.
Rating:
Summary: Good!
Review: Sleeping with the Enemy is a good movie about a woman who is on the run from her abusive husband and stars Julia Roberts as the wife and Patrick Bergin as her violent husband and they both did some good acting and you feel really bad for Julia's character and hope that she can rid herself of the brute!
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