Product reviewsSleeping With The Enemy (DVD, 2001)

Perfect thank you

Perfect thank you

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Poor quality

It was hardly audible. Had to turn sound to full, which made sound quality poor :(

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Honeymoon to Hell and back.

The opening shot in this film takes in a closeup of Laura (Julia Roberts) clam hunting in the low waters of a beautiful stretch of beach, almost as beautiful as the actress in closeup.But Laura's beauty cannot save her from being ravaged and beaten at will by her cunning and sadistic husband Martin(Patrick Bergan), a paranoid nutcase, and control freak who simmers with hate if the cans of rice pudding and baked beans are not evenly spaced and perfectly stacked in the kitchen cupboard. For three years Laura accepts her fate stoic'ly, until one short nasty scene early on in the film literally kicks this flick into a stylish psychological drama that makes sure the evil Martin, flowers or no flowers, never gets his dinner on time again. Passive in the face of extreme cruelty Laura methodically plans her escape, and finds anonymity, and a drama teacher (Kevin Anderson) with long hair and beard, who becomes her Guardian Angel; in every respect the exact opposite of the man she is running away from.
There are good performances from all the main actors, particularly Roberts, who delights in one scene when she and her guardian angel spend a happy hour together in the props room of the college theatre trying on the hats, only to return home and find Mr Nasty is back rearranging the baked beans in the cupboard. All the visual references regarding the profile of the deranged husband link very well together throughout the movie, although one may stop to ask on a technical point of law, whether Laura did the right thing in the end or not?
Bought off ebay for £3.00+p; excellent entertainment, for the price of a cup of coffee.Read full review...

Superb tense drama

Sleeping with the Enemy is a superb film. Tense, action, and drama. It should be enforced viewing for teenage girls at school to show how deceiving men can be in domestic abuse cases. Jennifer Roberts plays the woman who thought she had escaped her abuser.
Excellent ending.Read full review...

Sleeping with the Enemy

Soon after her wedding a lovely young woman discovers that her husband is a dangerous, violent, control-freak. Edge-of-your-seat thriller stars Julia Roberts, with Patrick Bergin as the hubby from hell.Read full review...

Sleeping with the Enemy

Dare I say I think this one is a chick flick one to watch with the girls with a good bottle of wine. Patrick Bergin is superb as the controlling husband and Julia Roberts dosent dissapoint either as the manulipated wife who eventually has enough and makes a break for freedom and of course moves in next door to a hunky guy one to watch on a Friday night...Read full review...

sleeping with the enemy

This is just such a classic thriller movie.
Her husband is a control freak.
Just when you think every thing is going to be alright,It is not.
I recently let a friend watch it on my DVD and they enjoyed it too.
The ending was great.Read full review...

Sleeping With The Enemy

Great acting by Julia Roberts. No-one could blame her for plotting to leave her violent husband and feigning her death, but the frightening part is the relentless search her husband carries out, and the violent ending.Read full review...

True classic

Great film :)julia roberts plays her charecter remarkably well and portrays a woman who is beaten by her husband but with a great twist!!

Not as good as I thought

Settling down to watch a good psycho thriller, when only to be left with a half hatched verly slow story line and a quite corny ending. Ms Roberts, Not at her best I think!