Rotten
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.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Sleeping with the Enemy
She is a stranger in a small town. She changed her name. Her looks. Her life. All to escape the most dangerous man she's ever met. Her husband.
1991 · 1h 39m · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Joseph Ruben
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Sleeping with the Enemy
Overview
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
Director and cast
- Joseph Ruben Director
- Julia Roberts as Laura Burney / Sara Walters
- Patrick Bergin as Martin Burney
- Kevin Anderson as Ben Woodward
- Elizabeth Lawrence as Chloe Williams
- Kyle Secor as John Fleishman
- Tony Abatemarco as Locke
- Claudette Nevins as Dr. Rissner
- Marita Geraghty as Julie
- Nancy Fish as Woman on Bus
- Harley Venton as Garber
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
24%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Roberts 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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
Tacky.
Stephen Garrett, Time Out
Rotten
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.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
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.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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