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Sleeping With The Enemy [1990] [DVD]

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Julia Roberts (Actor), Patrick Bergin (Actor), Joseph Ruben (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars 175 customer reviews
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  • Actors: Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson, Kyle Secor, Elizabeth Lawrence
  • Directors: Joseph Ruben
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, English
  • Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 17 Sept. 2001
  • Run Time: 94 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (175 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005NGUM
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 928 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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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, before pulling the rug out from under you feet. 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 destroy most of Ruben's momentum and the film's credibility, and the project never quite recovers. --Tom Keogh --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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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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1.0 out of 5 starssanitized version
By M P Crouch on 23 Aug. 2013
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
WATCH OUT !! don't buy this new blu ray release of Sleeping with the enemy - released in UK this month. This BD version of the film has been censored - early sex scene between Roberts & Bergin completely removed. No warning of this tampering given - would like original version not Mary Whitehouse ( or her successor ) version. Whether I see or don't see a film will be my decision THANKS !! August 2013 MPC.
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3.0 out of 5 starsMore cuts than you'd get at a butchers!
By Esjayell on 31 Oct. 2014
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
I'm not going to review the film as every-one has seen it, rather I'm reviewing the film as supplied on the dvd.

The First Cut
Sleeping With The Enemy was released in 1991 with a runtime of 98:31 (99 mins) the MPAA rated it as R (Restricted). Later that year it reached the UK, the BBFC classified it as 18 (similar to the MPAA rating), however if was cut it by 1 min. it could be classified as 15. In the US the video tape version released alongside the feature film was rated R with the original runtime, whilst in the UK it was the cut version classified at 15. However in November 1992 the uncut version was now available, classified at 18. In 2001 the movie was released on dvd, now there was a change, the rating was still R in the US, but in the UK it was 15, a decade on was it declassified or was it the cut UK version?

In 2003 it was released again worldwide as a 16x9 widescreen version. Wanting to see/own this in its original full 99 minute version, I ordered a region 1 dual sided disc. This, despite having the rating R on the back for Wife Abuse, Terror and a Sex Scene, does not have the sex scene! Incidentally, the point at which the sex scene doesn't exist to where it comes back after, is exactly one minute, coincidence?

Chronological Order (from http://www.bbfc.co.uk/)

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY (1991) Contains strong violence and sexual threat

Type Runtime Cut Distributor Date Certificate

Video 94m 31s Fox Video Ltd 16/11/1992 18

Video 94m 30s Twentieth Century Fox Home Ent. 09/04/2001 15

Video 93m 32s CBS/Fox Video Ltd 23/07/1991 15

Film 97m 31s 1m 0s 20th Century Fox Film Co.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsabsolutely magnificantly gripping/romantic film
By sc.frankland@virgin.net on 8 April 2001
Format: VHS Tape
Fantastic film. I have lost count how many times I have seen it and still go back for more. Julia Roberts is excellent as usual and every time I really enjoy the ending. The film has some good music in as well - bonus !
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4.0 out of 5 starsSuperb psychological drama
By Steven TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 11 Jun. 2013
Format: DVD
Miss Roberts puts in a masterful performance as a trophy wife of a wealthy man whose seemingly perfect life is blighted by her maniacally controlling and extremely violent husband. Patrick Bergen plays a horrible character in this and he does a really good job of creeping me out. Salvation comes during a boat trip in which JR dives overboard during stormy weather. It's well known that she can't swim and her husband, along with the authorities believe she's been swept out to sea. A strange quirk of fate leads her husband to discover that his wife could in fact swim, further detective work leads him to cedar falls where his ex has carved out a quiet life under an assumed identity. He stalks and eventually confronts her at home; with the threat of constant beatings returning to her life, Laura (JR) decides that only one of them will survive this encounter. This gripping thriller was a box office mega smash and resides up there with Jagged Edge, Single White Female and the Hand that Rocks the Cradle.
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1.0 out of 5 starsUK BLU RAY IS CUT
By rummadumma on 27 July 2014
Format: Blu-ray
Dont buy this UK blu Ray if you have the DVD already the sex scene early on is totally missing - shame on FOX sort it out - ill be keeping the DVD the Blu Ray picture only slightly better
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5.0 out of 5 starsAmazing!
By A Customer on 15 April 2003
Format: DVD
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.
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3.0 out of 5 starsOkay
By Cas Allas Mazda on 28 Jan. 2009
Format: DVD
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.
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