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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 inherent script problem than it is obvious studio pressure to push Roberts as a cute star. There's even a sequence where the actress tries on a series of hats while Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" plays on the soundtrack. Such insistent valentines to Roberts destroys most of Ruben's momentum and the film's credibility, and the project never quite recovers. --Tom Keogh
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1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Dolby Digital 2.0
Interactive Menus
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5 Videoclips
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Czech\Danish\Finnish\Hebrew\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Swedish
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Dolby Digital 2.0
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
5 Videoclips
Trailer
Czech\Danish\Finnish\Hebrew\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Swedish
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33 of 39 people found the following review helpful
This film, is by far, one of the best movies ever. The acting is great, the storyline is great, and the suspense is fantastic.
Storyline: Julia Roberts plays Laura, a young, married woman, who on the surface, leads a happy life. But behind closed doors, her life is a nightmare. Her husband beats her. One night, they go sailing, and Laura falls into the water, and her husband thinks she has drowned, because she could never swim. Only, she had learned to swim, and she had not drowned. She escaped, and swam back to shore, where she gathered her things and fled. She now lives a new life, under a new identity, hoping and praying that her husband won't discover that she's alive and find her. Only, he does, and he is after her..
This film is fantastic, and I have yet to find anyone who didn't like it. If you're buying a new movie, then this is definitly one for your collection. I'd give it 100/100.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
I saw this film many years ago at a test screening while holiday in America with my cousin Sherman. We were fortunate enough to have been invited to the screening because Sherman had what he called an understanding with Mr Phelps (the kindly gentleman who ran the theatre.) I did ask Sherman what this understanding was, but he refused to explain it to me. Unfortunately, he missed half of the film because he said he had to go the toilet halfway through. Sherman failed to return, but I managed to catch him in the foyer afterwards. He was helping Mr Phelps to do up the top button on his shirt. Sherman told me Mr Phelps had shaky hands and had trouble with such things.
So I endured the movie on my own and what a treat it was seeing Julia Roberts back on the silverscreen. After her debut in 'Wild Women' (a little known straight to video film from 1988) she is back in a much less seedy role and keeps her clothes on this time. Julia plays bored and frustrated housewife Laura Bunney, who is desperate to escape her sleazy husband, played with masculine charm by Tom Selleck. So Laura fakes her own death by pretending to choke on a vase. Her husband is distraught and Laura flees the scene to rebuild her life in Canada.
Cue the romantic love interest, a handsome fellow. I don't know who the actor was, but I believe it to be Richard Dreyfuss. I found the love story realistic and at times felt like I was in Laura's shoes and that I was her, though I should mention I have not ever been mistaken for Julia Roberts, but I was once told that I looked like Jeff Goldblum in the Fly. I am not sure whether they meant pre or post transformation.
Despite being thin on the action, there are no action sequences at all, the film scurries along at a brisk pace and the sixty two minute running time whizzes by. Julia Roberts is rumoured to look back fondly on the making of this film, citing it as a landmark in British cinema, which is curious as it is clearly a Swedish film.
So I endured the movie on my own and what a treat it was seeing Julia Roberts back on the silverscreen. After her debut in 'Wild Women' (a little known straight to video film from 1988) she is back in a much less seedy role and keeps her clothes on this time. Julia plays bored and frustrated housewife Laura Bunney, who is desperate to escape her sleazy husband, played with masculine charm by Tom Selleck. So Laura fakes her own death by pretending to choke on a vase. Her husband is distraught and Laura flees the scene to rebuild her life in Canada.
Cue the romantic love interest, a handsome fellow. I don't know who the actor was, but I believe it to be Richard Dreyfuss. I found the love story realistic and at times felt like I was in Laura's shoes and that I was her, though I should mention I have not ever been mistaken for Julia Roberts, but I was once told that I looked like Jeff Goldblum in the Fly. I am not sure whether they meant pre or post transformation.
Despite being thin on the action, there are no action sequences at all, the film scurries along at a brisk pace and the sixty two minute running time whizzes by. Julia Roberts is rumoured to look back fondly on the making of this film, citing it as a landmark in British cinema, which is curious as it is clearly a Swedish film.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
It's alright, but very different from the book that Nancy Price wrote. The place where Laura and her husband stay is not actually their home, but in fact a holiday place.
He doesn't find her ring down the toilet either, but discovers most home truths through lots of diarys she has written.
When she escapes from Martin and finds a new place, it isn't a house, but an apartment. She works as a carer down the street to pay her way.
The film is much better than the book, but the book is more realistic than the film. The film is too easy. Although I do like the romance of both characters and I do delight in her happiness. If her husband didn't come looking for her at the end, I would definitely disgruntled with it, because that creates thrill and excitement and the scary put of it you need to see.
He doesn't find her ring down the toilet either, but discovers most home truths through lots of diarys she has written.
When she escapes from Martin and finds a new place, it isn't a house, but an apartment. She works as a carer down the street to pay her way.
The film is much better than the book, but the book is more realistic than the film. The film is too easy. Although I do like the romance of both characters and I do delight in her happiness. If her husband didn't come looking for her at the end, I would definitely disgruntled with it, because that creates thrill and excitement and the scary put of it you need to see.
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gr8 film, just could of been a little better.
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NICE TO BE ABLE TO GET OLD FILMS
NICE TO BE ABLE TO GET OLD FILMS
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The film arrived really quickly and came in great condition and was well packaged. Definately recommend this film, its awesome!
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quality film
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