Claudette Nevins, Elizabeth Lawrence, Harley Venton

Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their house- hold, however, is very different. Martin is an abusive ...( read more  read more... )and brutally obsessed husband. Laura is living her life in constant fear and waits for a chance to escape. She finally stages her own death, and flees to a new town and new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead he will stop at nothing to find and kill her.

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R, 99 min.

Directed by: Joseph Ruben

Release Date: February 8, 1991

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DVD Release Date: September 2, 2003

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  • August 24, 2009
    Such a creepy movie! Julia is awesome in this.
  • February 21, 2009
    One of the first thrillers I saw at the cinema. Julia is brilliant. She stages her own death to get away from her abusive husband but in comes looking for her.
  • May 26, 2008
    so so thriller which really isn't that thrilling until the last 5 or 10 minutes. i didn't mind spending a couple of hours watching julia roberts frolic but she also frolics in some better films
  • September 10, 2007
    After seeing this, my husband would go into the bathroom and straighten out the towels just to freak me out!
  • July 24, 2007
    A tense thriller with Julia Roberts in the lead role, escaping her deranged psycho husband.
  • November 16, 2009
    Great suspense and relatively thrilling. Good parts played by mediocre actors... of course Roberts isn't included in that last staetment
  • November 3, 2009
    Too formulaic and predictable, but still not bad.
  • October 23, 2009
    Sleeping With the Enemy you know you have to ask yourself this....What happens when a beautiful young woman finds and marries her Prince Charming? ? and he turns out to be a psychotic monster? The movie, an intense thriller, casts julia roberts,as,laura burney,whose husband,the ...( read more)suave and oh so charming martin,played by patrick bergen,is actually a wife beating slug!!!!!!
    martins true nature was revealed to laura right after there honeymoon,and laura has thought of nothing else but escaping from him ever since,there are lots of twists and turns in this movie and eventually laura escapes by faking her own drowning and moving to a small town,but,inevitably martin finds out and comes after her and then it is BOGEY-MAN TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    well i really enjoyed this thriller...worth watching! julia roberts plays a great performance in my opinion
  • October 12, 2009
    Oh my, how scary it got!
  • September 27, 2009
    Julia Roberts is brilliant in this. Very scary at times but didn't completely put me off marriage like I thought it would. I loved Ben ( i think that's the characters name!) :)

Critic Reviews


May 12, 2001
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

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. full review

January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

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. full review

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