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Sleeping With the Enemy (1991)
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This 1991 thriller by Joseph Ruben (True Believer) works up to a point: Julia Roberts plays an abused wife who fakes her death and starts anew under a different identity in Iowa. Her psychopathic husband (Patrick Bergin) figures it out and stalks her and her new boyfriend (Kevin Anderson). The best part of the film is the moody isolation of Roberts's life with Bergin. Ruben ingeniously stakes out the story by presenting what looks like an ideal life between the two--a nice house on the ocean, a seemingly healthy sex life, etc.--and then, whammo! Vital to the plot but less interesting is everything afterward, but that's less an...
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Julia Roberts plays a woman on the run from her abusive husband.
It is a thriller that works sometimes and not others, Roberts is good as a victim, but her character could easily just move to another country, instead she stays within range of her bastard husband who is played almost too charmingly evil to...
(complete Sleeping With the Enemy review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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