Sleeping With the Enemy

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Sleeping with the Enemy

Sleeping with the Enemy

Theatrical release poster

Directed by Joseph Ruben

Produced by Leonard Goldberg

Screenplay by Ronald Bass

Bruce Joel Rubin(uncredited)

Based on Sleeping with the Enemy

by Nancy Price

Starring Julia Roberts

Patrick Bergin

Kevin Anderson

Music by Jerry Goldsmith

Cinematography John Lindley

Editing by George Bowers

Distributed by 20th Century Fox

Release dates February 8, 1991

Running time 97 minutes

Country United States

Language English

Budget $19 million[1]

Box office $174,999,005

Sleeping with the Enemy is a 1991 psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julia Roberts.

The film is based on Nancy Price's 1987 novel of the same name. Roberts plays a woman who escapes from her

abusive, obsessive husband from Cape Cod to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she captures the attention of a kindly college

drama teacher.

Plot

Laura Burney (Julia Roberts) lives in a beautiful home by the beach on Cape Cod with her husband, Martin (Patrick

Bergin), a charmingly handsome and wealthy investment counselor who is also possessive, abusive, and controlling.

It becomes clear that he has OCPD (Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder) and while she tries to abide by his

needs, she seems to suffer under the strain. Martin believes Laura has been flirting with an attractive neighbor, and

he physically assaults her as punishment. The abuse is an ongoing routine, which began immediately after th eir

wedding. To escape Martin, Laura plans and fakes her own death at sea in a storm while the couple are boating.

Laura had deliberately led Martin to believe that she could not swim, so he believed she had died once she was lost

overboard. However, having recently taken swimming lessons at the YWCA she was able to swim safely to shore.

She secretly returns home, retrieves some clothing and cash she had hidden away in preparation, disguises herself,

and leaves home after flushing her wedding ring down the toilet.

Laura moves to Cedar Falls, Iowa. In preparation, she has told Martin that her mother, Chloe Williams (Elizabeth

Lawrence), died, and pretended to attend the funeral, but secretly she had moved her to a nursing home in Iowa. She

rents a modest house and adopts the name Sara Waters. In Cedar Falls, she meets Ben Woodward (Kevin Anderson),
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who teaches drama at University of Northern Iowa. A relationship develops, but suffers a setback when Ben

discovers that her real name is not Sara. After a date, Laura is unable to be physically intimate with Ben, and the next

day, she confesses that she is on the run from an abusive husband.

Meanwhile, Martin receives a chance phone call from a friend of Laura's from the YWCA and learns of Laura's

swimming lessons. His suspicions aroused, Martin heads home and finds Laura's wedding ring in the toilet bowl

where it failed to flush. From the Cape Cod nursing home, he learns that Laura's mother is alive, and has her tracedto the nursing home in Iowa. He visits Laura's mother and tells her he is a police officer needing information about

Laura. He learns from her that Laura is seeing a college drama teacher in Cedar Falls.

Martin finds Laura and Ben at a local fair, then follows her to her home. After leaving idiosyncratic clues around the

house for Laura to find, Martin confronts Laura. Ben appears at the door and Martin, brandishing a gun, threatens to

kill Ben if she doesn't make him leave. Laura talks to Ben and he appears to leave, but then breaks down the door

and struggles with Martin, who knocks him unconscious. As he aims the gun at Ben, Laura distracts and attacks

Martin, who drops the gun, and she manages to take control of it; she fires at Martin but misses.

Laura holds Martin at gunpoint while she calls the police. She then tells the police that she just killed an intruder,

hangs up the phone and shoots Martin three times.

When Martin falls to the ground she drops the pistol and collapses, sobbing. Martin, not yet dead, picks up the gun

and tries to shoot her but the gun only clicks empty. Then Martin dies. Ben is revived by Laura and they embrace as

Martin's dead body lies on the ground with Laura's wedding ring inches from his hand.

Cast

Julia Roberts as Laura Williams Burney/Sara Waters

Patrick Bergin as Martin Burney

Kevin Anderson as Ben Woodward

Elizabeth Lawrence as Chloe Williams

Kyle Secor as Fleishman

Claudette Nevins as Dr. Rissner

Release

Critical reception

Sleeping with the Enemy received mixed to negative reviews; the film currently holds a 23% 'Rotten' rating on

Rotten Tomatoes.

Famed critic Roger Ebert gave the film 1.5 stars upon its release, calling it "a slasher movie in disguise, an up-market

version of the old exploitation formula where the victim can run, but she can't hide."

Box office

The film's opening endedHome Alone's 11-week #1 run at the box office. By the end of its run, the film had grossed

$101,599,005 in the domestic box office; with an international total of $73,400,000, the film's worldwide gross was

$174,999,005; based on a $19 million budget, the film was a box office success.
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Special Note

The film had the same storyline of aMalayalam Cinema,Manjil Virinja Pookkal which was release on 1980, which

was 11 years prior.

Home media

The film reached #1 in the rental charts.

Awards

The score by Jerry Goldsmith won the BMI Film Music Award, 1992, and the film was nominated for the Academy

of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films Saturn Award for 1992 in four categories: Best Actress (Roberts), Saturn

Award for Best Supporting Actor (Bergin), Best Horror Film and Best Music (Goldsmith).

Remakes

Year Film Language Cast Director Box Office

1995 Yaraana Hindi(India) Rishi Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit, Raj

Babbar

David Dhawan Below

Average

1996 Agni Sakshi Hindi(India) Jackie Shroff, Nana Patekar, Manisha

Koirala

Partho Ghosh Hit

1996 Daraar Hindi(India) Rishi Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Arbaaz

Khan

Abbas-Mustan Flop

1997 Pelli Telugu(India) Naveen, Maheswari, Prudhvi Raj Kodi Ramakrishna SuperHit

1997 Khilona Urdu Meera, Saud Sangeeta Hit

1998 Aval Varuvala Tamil(India) Ajith Kumar, Simran Raajkapoor Average

2002 Koi Mere Dil Se Poochhe Hindi(India) Aftab Shivdasani, Esha Deol, Sanjay

Kapoor

Vinay Shukla Flop

2013 Korean Im Sang-soo

2013 "Loobat Al Mawt"(series)

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Lebanese, Syrian &

Egyptian

Cyrine Abdelnour, ar: , ar:

Laith Hajo, Samer

Barqawi

References

[1] Sleeping with the Enemy at Box Office Mojo (http://admin.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=sleepingwiththeenemy.htm)

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