Nonureva Really Surprised!

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

abbymorel1106 I saw this on VHS rental (after it left theatres)The acting is good, no doubt. I found the story difficult to follow, because I hadn't read the book.There were several things in the movie I admired. Her breaking a light to show herself where their beach-house was after dark was clever. The explanations of her mother "dying" and finding out her mother was simply moved was interesting. (Now, after going through seniors housing applications, I see how little reality is shown in that part) JR acting was very good, as always.Until reading these reviews, I hadn't realized the bedroom scene was a "rape". Her arranging the pantry and the towels in a panicky manner certainly showed that the consequences for not doing so were likely dire. I didn't realize about the beach-house seldom being used until after her leaving.There were also things I wasn't impressed with: the husband's quick finding of her. The "big reveal" of the cupboard, showing her that she's been found. Him permitting her to call the police, her telling the police that she just killed an intruder, and his realizing what she just said. After her leaving, the movie does become rather clunky.I might be the only one who noticed, but the similarity in the appearance of Patrick Bergin and Tom Skeerit is just gross. (Tom Skeerit played Drum Eatenton in "Steel Magnolias": Shelby's father.) So, because of the appearance similarity, it seemed incestuousI think it's a good enough movie that I'd like to find the book it's drawn from.I've only seen it the once, but it does stand out in my memory as a clunky movie. Which is really too bad, I think Ms. Roberts deserves better.

FilmBuff1994 Sleeping with the Enemy is a mediocre movie with a promising storyline that simply didn't end up being as good as it could have been and a good cast.I really don't think this movie should have been considered a thriller because there are altogether about five minutes of scenes that are genuinely thrilling,which is another 85 minutes of little excitement.While I did think the love story between Julia Roberts and Kevin Anderson was nice to watch and the actors had good chemistry,I really wasn't expecting,nor was I happy to see,that a very large portion of this movie is a romance.While it isn't awful,Sleeping with the Enemy fails to succeed in any genre it is considered to be and I honestly wouldn't recommend it to anyone. A woman tries to escape an abusive husband by faking her own death and a starting a new life.Best Performance: Julia Roberts

kai ringler Julia Roberts gives a slam dunk performance as a physically abused woman who is married to a jerk,, played by Patrick Bergin. Throughout the movie she is being mentally and physically abused by her husband,, well after a while she grows tired of it, and decides that she has had just about enough she can take, so one night , he decides to take her sailing knowing full well she can't swim and is terrorized by the water. little does he know that he is about to be set up by his wife,, she falls off of the neighbor's yacht, and he can't find her, so after a short while she is declared dead.. she visits with her mother in the nursing home to let her know that she is okay,, eventually the husband finds out that his "dead" wife is alive, and he starts to track her down and follow her, and find the man that she is in love with now,, very good movie,, I really liked it a lot,, and it features the classic Van Morrisson hit,, Brown Eyed Girl.

WackyKacky I enjoyed this movie on a few levels, and there where things that I found totally unbelievable. The story line is basic: an abused woman who flees from her abuser, the enemy, who happens to be her husband. I picked up something watching a second time. It was when the abused woman (Julia Roberts) calls her mother who was blind and in a care facility. The main character said she had a job and was making her own money. It made me think that possibly the reason she may have remained in the abusive relationship was because she didn't know if she could make it on her own (support herself) without him. She was young and beautiful, but basically uneducated. She is wined and dined by a rich, handsome, powerful man (a policeman) that she marries, thinking he was her prince charming and she his princess. His OCD and lack of ability to view her as a human but only as a possession means a horrible existence for her, filled with fear, as he beats her and completely controls every aspect of her life. She plans her escape and waits for the opportunity, and then it presents itself. Here is where the plot begins to become unbelievable to me. When the impromptu opportunity arises, and time is of her essence for her to make her escape, she takes the time to cut her hair, change her clothes, throw her wedding ring in the toilet, and basically leave a ton of clues that she didn't perish the way he was going to think she perished.This is possibly her once in a lifetime opportunity to get away from this monster and she risks it by taking time at their home doing things that could easily have waited. Of course, she finds a love interest in a town far away. But I think the movie failed to really show the fall-back of women who have been abused for years. I think it would have been much harder that they portrayed it and I think she would have looked over her shoulder for years, possibly always. Forget about sitting on the front porch so soon after she escaped. I also didn't believe the mother daughter relationship. Maybe it was her grandmother and I missed it? Anyway, it lacked believability. And even though the mother didn't know the husband, she did know her daughter had to show up in male disguise to see her and had flown for her life and still harboring fear of being recognized and it getting back to him somehow. As a mother, I would have been way too hesitant to talk to someone who just showed up in my room asking questions about my kid without knowing exactly who I was speaking with. This mother just handed up the info and every detail to the psycho husband. Yes, I know she couldn't see him, but she knew enough about the situation to have been on guard.Lastly, in the final scene when she calls the police to report she had just shot an intruder, why not simply say the truth. She had just shot her husband? Ben was there to back things up (albeit he had been knocked out by the husband). Was this abused woman ever going to get her real identity back now? I thought this could have been much better by being more realistic.