Sleeping with the Enemy

Name: Sleeping with the Enemy
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Released: 1991-01-13T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 6.5

About Sleeping with the Enemy

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

Joseph Ruben's Sleeping with the Enemy is a 1991 thriller film. Released in January 1991, it runs 99 minutes.

Its themes are older man younger woman relationship, suspense, domestic violence, and domestic abuse.

Julia Roberts takes the lead as Laura Burney, Patrick Bergin as Martin Burney, Kevin Anderson as Ben Woodward, and Elizabeth Lawrence as Chloe Williams. The screenplay is by Ronald Bass. Produced by Leonard Goldberg Productions.

The Color Purple, Kill Me Twice, and Taken 3 make useful companions to Sleeping with the Enemy. TMDB voters put it at 6.5 out of 10 across 1,287 votes and it carries a R rating.