Review of Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) by Meathookcinema . — 05 Oct 2018

A wife fakes her own death to escape from her rich abusive husband. She then flees to the mid-west to try to rebuild her life under a different name so that he can't trace her. Will she succeed?

This is a Julia Roberts movie. If there isn't a big enough warning to stay away I don't know what is (although The Mexican is a great film but that's an exception in her oeuvre).

Everything from the scenes where she gets a beating (she's like Bambi in these scenes- innocent and a pure victim) through to the scenes where she is predictably 'learning to live again' in her new locale (there is one scene where her and her new boyfriend have great fun trying on different hats. I kid you not. It's as vomit-inducing as it sounds) to the final scenes where her hubby who has now traced her and seems to have morphed into a really rubbish version of Michael Myers, is big dumb Hollywood crud on every level. .

I hate films that don't warrant their audience with one iota of intelligence. This is one of those films. It took in megabucks at the box-office. In fact how this was made as a film to be shown in cinemas is beyond me. This feels like a Hallmark TV movie. .

If you want to see a great, intelligent film about abuse and stalker-esque behaviour in a relationship, please watch Play Misty For Me instead. If you want to see a film about an abused woman who isn't a victim seek out Ms.45. .

Avoid this rancid film.