Underplayed Gems

Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

Sleeping with the Enemy poster
Directed by
Joseph Ruben
Genre
drama film, psychological thriller, neo-noir, erotic thriller, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 35m
Rated
R
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 1,237 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman fakes her own death to escape her abusive husband. She starts a new life in a small town, but her husband discovers she is alive and comes looking for her.

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What happens

Sleeping with the Enemy is a 1991 American psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, and Kevin Anderson. The film is based on Nancy Price's 1987 novel of the same name. Roberts plays a woman who fakes her own death and moves from Cape Cod to Cedar Falls, Iowa, to escape her controlling, obsessive, and abusive husband, but finds her peaceful new life interrupted when he discovers her actions and tracks her down. Sleeping with the Enemy was released theatrically by 20th Century Fox on February 8, 1991. It received generally negative reviews from critics, but it was a box-office success, grossing $175 million on a production budget of $19 million. The film also broke the record at the time for the highest domestic opening for a film with a female lead, grossing $13 million on its opening weekend and surpassing the previous record held by Aliens, which grossed $10 million in its first weekend. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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