Sleeping with the Enemy

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Summary: Husband Displays Classic Signs of Abuser
Review: The husband in the movie displays the classic signs of an abuser. He tries to keep Laura under control, he must have the towels and cans arranged in a certain order, he accuses her of having eyes for a doctor who lives on the same beach as they do (even though she insists that she doesn't know him) and hits her, he wants to keep her confined to the house, and he tries to keep her from seeing friends or family (especially her mother). So-so movie, but portrayal of abusive husband is accurate.

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Summary: i found it to be very good!
Review: This is a very good movie! at least thats what i though, yes i know everyone has there own opinion but i will speak for everyone when i say that if you like suspence you will definetly love this action packed interesting movie. and most people can learn from it too.

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Summary: A complete waste
Review: Illogical from beginning to end. The movie is predictable. Once you find out Julia Roberts plays an abused wife, you know how the film is going to end. Julia Roberts is miscast. This movie is a waste of time.

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Summary: Julia in her best role ever!
Review: Laura and Martin were married for 3 years 7 months and 6 days in that time Laura has been beaten by her husband everytime she did something wrong! She pretended that she couldn't swimm but behind Martins back she took swimm-lessons. One day when Laura and Martin went sailing she pretended to fell over board and to bee drawn! While the police searched for Laura in the water, she swimmed home took some cothes threw the ring down the toilet and took the next bus to the town where her mother ived in a clinic! There she fell in love with her Neighbore Ben! But somehow Martin discovered Laura's Mom and so he knew where Laura was! A clever suspens movie, two Thumbs up!

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Summary: GUILTY PLEASURE
Review: Joseph Ruben has fashioned a by-the-numbers, glossy, engrossing, if trashy and predictable, thriller. It is imminently watchable, of course, and features the mega-watt smile of our fave, Julia Roberts, who improbably dons theatrical costumes in the midst of a semi-breakdown to the tune of Brown-Eyed Girl. The men around Julia, both her over-the-top psychopathic husband and her would-be new, soft boyfriend (Patrick Bergin and Kevin Andersen, respectively) are completely dispensable, and Ruben knows this: he keeps us monumentally focused on the beguiling Ms. Roberts throughout. It is easy to forget and forgive lapses in credibility (there are many), and the opening twenty minutes have a glossy, antiseptic queasiness about them that seem to be setting up a much more deft and daring thriller. All of that vanishes, along with common sense, but it hardly matters. This movie is one you can watch over and over and over again, a bunch of chips nearby: it moves quickly, harmlessly, and gives you what you want when you just don't feel much like thinking.

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Summary: Doesn't compare to book
Review: Whoever enjoyed this movie must not have read the book! I think Julia Roberts was a BAD CHOICE to play Sara! The film had none of the depth intensity the book had. If you haven't had a chance to read it please do. You will not be let down.

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Summary: Creepy but realistic
Review: The pressure of the movie builds up as the abusing husband hits his wife(Roberts). The combination of creepy music, greyish (sad) colors and good acting makes this movie really good. I think the contrast between the wife's old life on the east coast and her new life in Iowa makes this movie so good. In her old life everything was grey and sad, while in her new life everything was colorful until the husband from hell returns. The ending was also very good, as her old life returned to her. The viewer get this impression as the creepy music is beeing played at the same time as Roberts rushes through the house to look for signs for her enemy that had been torturing her for so long.

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Summary: If you haven't, watch it!
Review: I remembered this film from 1991 and rented it again. I love Julia, and it's really worth seeing many times! It's exciting and scary at the same time. Go For It!

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Summary: Start having a great life
Review: Underappreciated stalker film about a wife who fakes death to shake her abusive husband and moves away to start a new life, truly unaware of the lengths he'll go to get her back. Eery execution and breath taking atmosphere add to the beauty of this film. The "Brown Eyed Girl" scene is a little corny.

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Summary: book was better!
Review: the movie was good... if you never read the book! but by the same token... the book was better than the movie.