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Sleeping with the Enemy
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Overview

User Rating:
5.7/10   13,474 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Nancy Price (novel)
Ronald Bass (screenplay)
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Release Date:
8 February 1991 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
Self-Defense is not murder more
Plot:
Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 4 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(7 articles)
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User Comments:
A Lifetime movie from Hell... more (80 total)

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Julia Roberts ... Laura Burney
Patrick Bergin ... Martin Burney
Kevin Anderson ... Ben Woodward
Elizabeth Lawrence ... Chloe Williams
Kyle Secor ... Fleishman

Claudette Nevins ... Dr. Rissner

Tony Abatemarco ... Locke
Marita Geraghty ... Julie
Harley Venton ... Garber

Nancy Fish ... Woman on Bus
Sandi Shackelford ... Edna

Bonnie Johnson ... Mrs. Nepper (as Bonnie Cook)
Graham Harrington ... Minister

John Ward ... Theater Student (as John David Ward)
Sharon J. Robinson ... Sharon (the Nurse)
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for wife abuse terror and a sex scene.
Runtime:
99 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Brazil:14 | Spain:13 | Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | UK:15 (DVD rating) (uncut) (2001) | UK:18 (video rating) (uncut) (1992) | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Norway:15 | Peru:18 | Singapore:M18 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 (original rating) (cut) | USA:R | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia)

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Trivia:
The sign at the carnival reads "Claude Powell's Super Carnival". 'Claude Powell' worked as the construction coordinator in the Art Department on the film. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Laura escapes from the Yacht she returns to the beach home and changes clothes, and also cuts a large amount of her hair so that she can put on the darker wig. A few days later she is in the small Iowa town walking through the rental home with surprisingly long hair again. more
Quotes:
Laura: [on phone, with gun aimed at Martin] Come quickly. I've just killed an intruder. more
Movie Connections:
Soundtrack:
BROWN EYED GIRL more

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Where was Laura and Martin's vacation home on the beach located?
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8 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
A Lifetime movie from Hell..., 4 January 2005
7/10
Author: Ed Cowell from Cleveland, OH

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY resembles the kind of movie they show endlessly on the Lifetime channel. The men are either weak and ineffectual or psychotic.It was rightfully parodied by the movie FATAL INSTINCT. For the most part, the cheese factor is high, with plot devices scattered about everywhere, as well as a number of holes mentioned in other reviews. The characters act the way they do because the story requires them to do so. The scenery is wonderful, particularly at the beginning with the boats and the ocean. Patrick Bergin is great as Julia Roberts's obsessive-compulsive creep of a husband. Roberts has more chemistry with him than anyone else in the movie...

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