Sleeping With the Enemy

May 2024 · 32 minute read

I'm watching it right now. What a campy piece of trash!

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by Anonymousreply 155December 15, 2020 11:01 AM

There are SO many things wrong with this movie (the story, the plot holes, suspension of disbelief) but for some reason I will always end up watching it if I pass by it on the weekends.Patrick Bergen's mustache is to die for.

by Anonymousreply 1January 12, 2015 6:39 AM

Good campy piece of trash or bad campy piece of trash?

by Anonymousreply 2January 12, 2015 6:50 AM

I'm not seeing the camp in this one. Julia Roberts is too earnest. Bergin comes closer but never takes it to the level of being a hoot.

by Anonymousreply 3January 12, 2015 7:15 AM

In his defense, one should be beaten for cans not facing front in your pantry or cabinet.

by Anonymousreply 4January 12, 2015 7:21 AM

Bergin kind of disappeared. What happened to his career?

by Anonymousreply 5January 12, 2015 7:32 AM

I was on a first date with a guy, and we were asked to leave the theatre for laughing hysterically when the cans scene happened. More time for fucking!

by Anonymousreply 6January 12, 2015 7:45 AM

You could tell that they changed the script heavily when they cast Julia Roberts and saw the success of Pretty Woman. The second act of the movie is a complete tonal shift when it turns into a romantic comedy. Because of that, the genuinely good beginning and end never added up to more than the sum of its parts.

by Anonymousreply 8January 12, 2015 7:54 AM

The Scene where the husband just walks over and smacks her upside the head casually sending Julia flying made me laugh out loud.

by Anonymousreply 9January 12, 2015 8:24 AM

Sleeping With the Audience

by Anonymousreply 11January 12, 2015 10:29 AM

No, R11... Sleeping with the Producer.

by Anonymousreply 12January 12, 2015 10:39 AM

I would deal with a couple of knocks to the skull if it meant living in that incredible beachside mansion.

by Anonymousreply 13January 12, 2015 1:30 PM

This movie screams *very early 90s.* There must be a name for this genre which, for a brief time, ruled the box office along with Single White Female and that kind of stuff.

by Anonymousreply 14January 12, 2015 1:36 PM

I was hoping it would be good bad but its just bad bad. Just really limp and boring. Julia Roberts isn't even good in camp movies and the psycho husband just isn't fuckable enough.

by Anonymousreply 15January 12, 2015 1:36 PM

I remember playing over and over on my VCR the scene with Patrick Bergin simulating sex with Julia Roberts. You see his butt as he walks out of bed. Don't seek out the movie just for that. It's a nothing scene compared to what you'd see on the FX network these days. I never thought of 1990 as being a wholesome era, but that was practically porn for a middle-schooler like me. That is, until Basic Instinct came out.

Yes, the character was evil, but the mustache worked for me. So did that ass. Maybe it was a body double. Who cares?

by Anonymousreply 16January 12, 2015 1:54 PM

As ridiculous as the movie was (the lined-up cans scene was a hoot and a half!), I have to admit Patrick Bergin did the best fake American I've ever heard an Irishman do.

Another entertaining guilty pleasure of this movie is that Jerry Goldsmith's music was soooo deliberately sugary & sappy it perfectly matched Julia Roberts' sugary/sappy screen presence! Julia Roberts and that schmaltzy musical theme were truly made for each other!

by Anonymousreply 17January 13, 2015 12:29 AM

The book was much different.

by Anonymousreply 18January 13, 2015 12:45 AM

Wait until her new campfest, "The Boy Next Door."

As if that hot young thing would have sex with her old ass.

And it's funny how her stalker is supposed to be in high school, but he looks like he's 30.

I love the line from the movie trailer, when JLo's son asks the boy next door, "do you want a cookie?" And he replies, "I love your mom's cookies!"

ROFL. Now THIS movie is gonna be campy.

by Anonymousreply 19January 13, 2015 3:36 AM

Use to be a guilty pleasure along with the seventh Sign. Julia had charm then instead of smug

by Anonymousreply 20January 13, 2015 3:45 AM

I played that movie over and over just to see that great little house she rented for $700 a month, right on the spot.

R1 is right - it changed abruptly from a thriller to a romcom (complete with Julie turning from a brittle survivor into a simpering ninny).

Bergin was fun to watch, he almost tips over into camp but never quite does it. And his voice is super creepy.

by Anonymousreply 21January 13, 2015 3:49 AM

Sure, R19. You NEVER hear of some guy in HS fucking an older woman. It would especially never happen with someone as heinous as Lopez.

by Anonymousreply 22January 13, 2015 3:49 AM

R19, It bothered me that the guy is supposed to be 16, maybe 17, and looks like he is in his 30s. I thought, "They can't find young looking actors in their 20s?" Then I remembered this is a J.Lo schlockfest, not a contender at Sundance or Cannes.

by Anonymousreply 23January 13, 2015 3:51 AM

I have to change the channel every time that HORRIFYING montage comes on where her and her new boyfriend are trying on costumes, making cutesy faces, and LAUGHING like their life depended on it...of course set to "Brown Eyed Girl". Yes, I am aware that I should change the channel the second this comes on.

by Anonymousreply 24January 13, 2015 3:51 AM

[quote]Use to be a guilty pleasure along with the seventh Sign.

Michael Biehn was so hot in that movie.

by Anonymousreply 25January 13, 2015 3:54 AM

[quote]I have to change the channel every time that HORRIFYING montage comes on where her and her new boyfriend are trying on costumes, making cutesy faces, and LAUGHING like their life depended on it...of course set to "Brown Eyed Girl". Yes, I am aware that I should change the channel the second this comes on.

It was so Pretty Woman Buys Nice Clothes I almost expected that when she killed the husband at the end she was going to tell the 911 operator that she shot a hole in his head: "Big. Big. Huge."

by Anonymousreply 26January 13, 2015 3:55 AM

R24, I DO THE SAME THING! God, all those smarmy smirks and grimaces from Horseface.

by Anonymousreply 27January 13, 2015 3:56 AM

The husband looked a bit much like Manos

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by Anonymousreply 28January 13, 2015 4:45 AM

I kinda love this movie. It's a blast. Definitely set the mold for the Lifetime original movies that have been saturating TV screens ever since.

Julia was charming in this and there's some legit suspense in there. Jerry Goldsmith's score was beautiful.

by Anonymousreply 29January 13, 2015 4:57 AM

I loved the depiction of her escape scene. How she swam away, went back to the house, etc.

I couldn't get over the fact that Julia's character could afford a beautiful and enormous $700 a month house by working part time at a public library, though.

Also, she had a really nice wardrobe for a woman who only had time to pack what few belongings she could grab.

What library did she work at? Are they hiring?

Did anyone else notice that her new boyfriend was, in a different sort of way, just as controlling as her husband?

by Anonymousreply 30January 13, 2015 5:30 AM

Well, the master loves beautiful women, R28.

by Anonymousreply 32January 14, 2015 5:06 AM

What was the book like, R18?

by Anonymousreply 33January 14, 2015 4:07 PM

It's surprising that they stopped making those, R14. They made huge amounts of money at the box office and cost a tenth of what these superhero movies do.

by Anonymousreply 34January 14, 2015 4:08 PM

I love how, in order to communicate Kevin Anderson's character is a musical theater teacher, they introduce him watering his lawn dancing around singing "When You're A Jet" from West Side Story.

For some reason it just cracks me up.

by Anonymousreply 35January 14, 2015 4:14 PM

I love this shitty movie too!

The way Julia describe the dinner of Lamb and peach chutney. She acts like she's in grade school talking to the teacher!

As others have mentioned the house she rents right off the bat and with what money?

The stupidity of going back to the house and throwing her ring in the toilet.

Her hair goes from straight to curly (did they have flat irons back then?)

That ridiculous horse laugh.

She meets a guy in practically 30 seconds in moving to that new town.

The scene where the hubby tries to smother the blind mother.

Agree with R1 too. The movie should have stayed a thriller. That romcom shit with that ugly theater guy was a dumb move.

The only movie I liked Julia Roberts in was one with Hugh Grant - forget the name. But she's a star and falls for Hugh in London.

by Anonymousreply 36January 14, 2015 4:28 PM

"The only movie I liked Julia Roberts in was one with Hugh Grant - forget the name. But she's a star and falls for Hugh in London."

It's called "Notting Hill", and it's mildly amusing.

by Anonymousreply 37January 14, 2015 6:00 PM

Wasn't she lucky to find this beautiful furnished Victorian house to rent for only $700 a month? Why did she need such a big place anyway? A small apartment would have made more sense.

by Anonymousreply 38January 14, 2015 6:36 PM

I was just a babe when this movie was released.

I really loved it back then.

Now, maybe not so much. Still watchable, though.

by Anonymousreply 39January 14, 2015 6:37 PM

This movie is plot-hole paradise. And yet, I get sucked into watching it every time it's on TV.

And my inner OCD housekeeper flinches every time I watch the housecleaning scene where she flips off the furniture covers and spreads dust everywhere.

by Anonymousreply 40January 14, 2015 7:29 PM

I haven't seen this craptastic movie in many years, but I might have to re-watch it because this thread is making me laugh.

I clearly remember the barf-inducing "Brown Eyed Girl" scene with Julia doing a cutesy montage while trying on different outfits. Was that the first time a movie used that type of scene - a montage of a cutesy actress doing cutesy things set to an old song? That hackneyed little bit has been done to death ever since.

by Anonymousreply 41January 14, 2015 7:38 PM

Not one hot guy inthe whole thing!

by Anonymousreply 44January 18, 2015 2:38 AM

Enough with Jennifer Lopez is running on a loop today on Bravo. It's a much better movie than SWTE. Billy Campbell is scary as hell as the cheating, beating husband. The movie has a good supporting cast including Dan Futterman and Juliet Lewis and Noah Wyle as a sleazy cop. Lots of very tense moments. JLo is very good even if the plot defies probablitly. The climax is fun. She beats his ass real good. And then he dies. I hate bullies of any stripe. And I particularly hate men who solve every conflict with their fists.

by Anonymousreply 45January 18, 2015 2:59 AM

I beg to differ, R44. Kevin Anderson was hot in this with that scruff and mop of thick, curly, reddish hair.

by Anonymousreply 46January 18, 2015 3:03 AM

R45: I love "Enough", too! Lopez certainly comes across as tough enough to kick some guys ass..

by Anonymousreply 47January 18, 2015 3:16 AM

I love the movie. Though I will agree that the first part was betrayed by the last part.

by Anonymousreply 48January 18, 2015 3:28 AM

i googled 'Datalounge Patrick Bergin' and i came across the threads 'Celebrities who've hit on or cruised you' , and 'Which Celebrities Have You Met in Person' except for this one.

I read some posts, but i didn't read them all, my eyes almost exploded, there were too many replies, so could you please tell me what do you know about Patrick Bergin? I would be grateful...

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by Anonymousreply 49June 3, 2015 12:53 PM

LAUUUUUUUURA!!!!!!!!! LAURAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

by Anonymousreply 50June 3, 2015 2:09 PM

Of course. Why, in The World, did Julia think she could go so strawberry blonde? It makes her look like she has kwashiorkor.

by Anonymousreply 51June 3, 2015 2:16 PM

What was up with the score during this lovemaking scene? It sounds like Christmas music, what with the bells and horns.

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by Anonymousreply 52June 3, 2015 2:28 PM

[quote]I was on a first date with a guy, and we were asked to leave the theatre for laughing hysterically when the cans scene happened. More time for fucking!

What was so funny about that scene?

by Anonymousreply 53June 3, 2015 2:29 PM

[quote]It's surprising that they stopped making those, [R14]. They made huge amounts of money at the box office and cost a tenth of what these superhero movies do.

Sandra Bullock's THE NET (1995) was also in a similar vein, i.e. young woman in peril has her identity stolen. It was a big hit, too.

by Anonymousreply 54June 3, 2015 2:34 PM

R19 you must not know any straight guys. None of them would turn down the chance to fuck J.Lo. Even though she's 45, she's still very beautiful and hot. Also, a lot of teenage boys fetishize older women. That's how the term MILF came to be. DILF descended from that, and we often see on DL people lusting after hot daddy-type actors. Why wouldn't younger straight guys lust after older hot women? Just because as a gay man J.Lo does nothing for you doesn't mean squat.

by Anonymousreply 55June 3, 2015 2:41 PM

I always turn it off once she gets away. The first half is good; the 2nd half is zzzzzzzzz.

by Anonymousreply 56June 3, 2015 2:42 PM

I remember going to this with a straight female friend. She loved it, I thought it was shit. I remember reading afterward that those involved in the film realized they could capitalize on Julia's rising star after Pretty Woman, so they added the Brown Eyed Girl montage. I agree with above posters that you can notice the tonal shift. It was fairly typical, shitty 90s fare.

by Anonymousreply 57June 3, 2015 2:49 PM

R52, was this what you were looking for?

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by Anonymousreply 58June 3, 2015 2:51 PM

R58 yes. Did my link not work?

Anyway, it sounds like music they'd play for CHristmas-themed movies. I imagine a mall scene with decorations and Salvation Army Santas and mall elves and throngs of crowds.

by Anonymousreply 59June 3, 2015 3:02 PM

"The only movie I liked Julia Roberts in was one with Hugh Grant - forget the name. But she's a star and falls for Hugh in London."

She's just as evil in her own way as the husband is in Sleeping With the Enemy.

She completely skull fucks poor Hugh for what, 18 months, while she pops in and out of his life, ignores him completely for months at a time, screams foul abuse at him and generally blames him for whatever goes wrong with her life. Poor Hugh takes it and in the process goes through months of Hell, turns his life completely upside down and winds up the kept man used for breeding, escorting her to red carpets, and reading to her while she cradles her head in his lap where his balls used to be before he met her.

My main problem with Sleeping is that they never spent a second explaining how she wound up married to him. She obviously made some sort of deal with the Devil to get there--no way he changed so completely after the rings was on her finger.

by Anonymousreply 60June 3, 2015 3:13 PM

This movie is full of holes but:

[quote]As others have mentioned the house she rents right off the bat and with what money?

I believe before she leaves him, they establish that she's been squirreling away a was of cash that she takes with her. Now, how much cash she was able to take is questionable. Certainly not enough to rent a house and pay for her mother's care.

But I could never get over how she chops off her hair and flushes the ring at the house. Obviously it was used as a device for the husband to realize what she'd done, but surely they could have come up with a better way... or wait, maybe they couldn't.

[quote]Her hair goes from straight to curly (did they have flat irons back then?)

Well, they had blow dryers, irons, and things called perms.

by Anonymousreply 61June 3, 2015 3:15 PM

[quote]no way he changed so completely after the rings was on her finger.

Yes, because people don't often get themselves into a situation where they hide their darkest sides from you, which you don't discover until it's too late.

by Anonymousreply 62June 3, 2015 3:18 PM

I never bought that a husband as controlling as he was wouldn't know what she was up to every minute of the day. Someone like that would have followed her a few times to make sure she was where she said she was. No way she'd have been able to take swimming lessons without him knowing.

by Anonymousreply 63June 3, 2015 3:20 PM

The movie was bad and it made a lot of changes from the novel.

The novel is interesting but as implausible as the movie. Robert's character is called Sara in the book; Laura is her alias. She's too good to be true: blonde (she has long "silvery" blonde hair and "nice breasts"), beautiful, kind, intelligent (she's very bookish; she works in a library). She's always sexually available whenever her demanding hubby wants it and never says no. She's very domestic, and cooks delicious meals for her Lord and Master. She's very handy; she knows how to paint and do home improvements. Having taken care of her infirm mother she is a competent caregiver, as competent as a nurse's aide. And she's incredibly honorable; she hates having to lie about anything and it tears her heart to do it.

Her husband Martin is psychotically abusive and hits her coming home a little late and not having his supper ready for him. Before they're married he tells her that is she ever cheated on him he'd kill her and the man too. I guess she didn't take that seriously; she thought it was romantic!

Anyway, when she gets settled in her new place she pays the month's rent and is pretty much out of money. She goes hungry; she lives on oatmeal and beans, and asks her neighbor if she can have the apples from hid tree that are lying on the ground. She finds a job very quickly, helping to care for a bedridden woman who'd been in a car accident. She got the job without using a SS number (she knows if she uses her SS number Martin would easily find her), which seems really unlikely.

At any rate, the novels ends with Sara free of Martin and in love with her neighbor, an assistant professor named Ben; instant boyfriend. The novel ends with Ben reluctantly going off to work (he'd much rather stay home and continue fucking Sara), with Sara promising him a nice dinner when he returns. Ben is musing about how wonderful his life is going to be with a woman around the house; he'll come home to have dinner waiting for him and a glass of wine at the ready. He'll have time to finish that book he was working on, because now there would be someone else around to do household chores. And of course the sex; he greatly anticipates the coming night, when he'll have "Sara in his bed, all night long."

I guess some people would think this book ends on a romantic, positive note, but I think the ending is rather ominous. Sara goes from one master/slave relationship with a man right into another one, albeit one where she won't be getting whacked around. Sara is obviously very co-dependent and subservient to men; there's nothing romantic about that.

I will say thing about "Sleeping With The Enemy"; it had a great title.

by Anonymousreply 64June 3, 2015 5:09 PM

R52, your link did work. It was Patrick Bergin who was fucking Julia Roberts.

The music is Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique 5th Movement.

Guys, however you failed me! I asked you to tell me about Patrick Bergin and you keep on talking just about the movie.

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by Anonymousreply 65June 3, 2015 6:48 PM

I thought Kevin Anderson danced her too hard in the Brown-Eyed Girl sequence. But she seemed to like it.

by Anonymousreply 66June 10, 2015 1:13 PM

[quote] I clearly remember the barf-inducing "Brown Eyed Girl" scene with Julia doing a cutesy montage while trying on different outfits.

I took a women's film course in college in the early 90s where the professor (butch lesbian) gave us the option to either write a paper or submit a 5 minute video using the techniques and iconography discussed with some of the films we watched all semester. Very feminist perspective. Two female students joined together to do a video in which they recreated the "Brown Eyed Girl" montage. I'll never forget the look on my professor's face when they showed the video to the class.

by Anonymousreply 68June 10, 2015 2:58 PM

A cult movie with an iconic and legendary actress. What more can you ask for ?

by Anonymousreply 70June 10, 2015 4:22 PM

Some critic said that when she went to visit her mother in the hospital she was done up in an I Love Lucy-type male drag. And she was! She looked like Lucy Ricardo when Lucy impersonated a man for one of her zany schemes. Another one said that the guy who played her caring boyfriend looked like a little kid wearing a fake beard. Anyway, this movie was SO silly. Not scary, silly.

by Anonymousreply 71June 10, 2015 4:45 PM

Yes I thought the husband would recognize her when he was standing behind her. It wasn't the most brilliant disguise and her walk didn't convince.

by Anonymousreply 72June 10, 2015 11:54 PM

There were some nice touches, like how people moved out of Martin's way when he was about to walk into them.

by Anonymousreply 73June 10, 2015 11:57 PM

R66 - the dance song was Runaround Sue

by Anonymousreply 74June 10, 2015 11:59 PM

Roberts' best performance after Mystic Pizza.

by Anonymousreply 75June 11, 2015 12:43 AM

Second best, R75... after Hook.

Fuck you, Spielberg!

by Anonymousreply 76June 11, 2015 2:13 PM

Obviously her hair got wild and curly after she ran away because Martin had been making her straighten it. The novel this is based on begins with Sara/Laura in the beauty parlor getting her hair done the way Martin likes it. After she escapes one of the welcome aspects of her new life is no more beauty parlors.

by Anonymousreply 77June 11, 2015 4:29 PM

Was Julia already a whore by this time?

by Anonymousreply 78June 13, 2015 4:18 AM

Cameron, honey, Julia's always been a whore.

by Anonymousreply 79June 13, 2015 5:24 AM

Whatever happened to Kevin Anderson?

by Anonymousreply 80June 13, 2015 5:52 AM

Didn't he play a priest on some TV show?

by Anonymousreply 81June 13, 2015 5:56 AM

Iconic cunt actress in a shitshow. DL standard.

by Anonymousreply 82June 14, 2015 6:33 AM

Bump cause I just finished watching this movie again . So much cheese. So much apple eating . Ben is almost as creepy as Martin . I kept waiting for Richard Gere to show up .

by Anonymousreply 83September 18, 2016 3:52 AM

That's what reminding is for!

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by Anonymousreply 84September 18, 2016 4:07 AM

WHET Bergin? He didn't have much of a career after this big hit film.

by Anonymousreply 85September 18, 2016 4:48 AM

It was a surprise hit at the time, and helped solidified Roberts' rising star status.

Bergin got the best reviews and was expected to go on to better things.

Well, that didn't happen.

by Anonymousreply 86September 18, 2016 4:54 AM

R64 Yeah it's kinda obvious from your description that the ending is meant to be ominous...surprising anyone would think otherwise.

by Anonymousreply 87September 18, 2016 1:53 PM

I really enjoyed this film until I realized Julia was playing Patrick's wife, not his daughter.

by Anonymousreply 88September 18, 2016 2:16 PM

R9 Now you have me thinking about The Crush with Alicia Silverstone. I always lmao when Cary Elwes punches her and sends her flying.

by Anonymousreply 89September 18, 2016 2:23 PM

Let's be honest. Who hasn't wanted to smack Julia Roberts around at least once?

by Anonymousreply 90September 18, 2016 5:49 PM

Agreed R1. He wears that mustache so damn well.

by Anonymousreply 91February 1, 2020 3:53 AM

This was when Julia was still likable.

by Anonymousreply 92February 1, 2020 4:02 AM

This movie is soooo bad it's good.

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by Anonymousreply 93February 1, 2020 4:04 AM

For years I thought Patrick Bergen and Kevin Kline were the same person.

by Anonymousreply 94February 1, 2020 4:10 AM

It's pure schmaltz, but it's insanely entertaining and draws me in every time. You really think she'd have lived in a boardinghouse or something. Plus, it would have given crazy husband more victims to knock off.

by Anonymousreply 95February 1, 2020 4:12 AM

What is campy about a movie where Julia Roberts gets abused? Who hasn't wanted to give her a vicious face slapping?

by Anonymousreply 96February 1, 2020 4:12 AM

Campy AF, OP. That’s exactly why I loved it.

by Anonymousreply 97February 1, 2020 4:36 AM

Watch [italic]Mountains of the Moon[/italic] if you want to see Bergin smooch a young Iain Glenn.

by Anonymousreply 98February 1, 2020 7:30 AM

I found Patrick Bergin especially sexy. I would rewind the shot of his ass (hopefully not a body double). I think perhaps he wasn't ambitious enough, and after this film he starred in the flop Love Crimes with movie-killer Sean Young.

The score is sappy but I love it.

I found the neighbour really creepy. Kind of stalker-ish. Maybe he wasn't that different from her husband.

by Anonymousreply 99February 1, 2020 8:21 AM

I love this campy piece of shit! It's so 90's. I like the idea that Julia Roberts's character just keeps repeating the cycle of abuse, R99. What was missing was a gritty realism for a movie that was tackling such a dark topic. As for her neighbor lover, I was truly creeped out when he was on her porch towards the end of the movie, looking at her. It was as though they HAD to be together, and after he killed off her abusive husband, she really had no choice but to pity fuck him. He was cute, but the hair's got to go!

by Anonymousreply 100February 1, 2020 8:32 AM

I only saw it once, back when it was new and part of the proto-Lifetime woman-in-danger movie trend alongside Unlawful Entry and Single White Female.

Refresh my memory. Did Sleeping with the Enemy follow the formula of the woman killing the dangerous man at the end, only for him to SHOCKINGLY!!! re-emerge from the shadows with SHOCKING!!! music and try to kill her before she kills him again—and then—SHOCKINGLY!!!—he’s still not dead and she has to kill him a third time?

by Anonymousreply 101February 1, 2020 8:44 AM

[quote] Watch Mountains of the Moon if you want to see Bergin smooch a young Iain Glenn.

I read that as “a young plain Glenn” and assumed you were talking about a film from the silent era.

by Anonymousreply 102February 1, 2020 9:11 AM

I totally rooted for her husband in this film - anyone who keeps his kitchen cabinets so neatly arranged and likes Berlioz is OK in my book.

by Anonymousreply 103February 1, 2020 11:10 AM

She deserved to get smacked around. Rich, handsome husband gives her a beautiful house to live in, and she acts like an ungrateful bitch.

by Anonymousreply 104February 1, 2020 11:12 AM

R6-same, but with me it was because I started cackling every time an apple pie and American flag were shown to emphasize just how down home, pure, good and sweet Julia Roberts' character was supposed to be. R9, my date guffawed loudly at that.

by Anonymousreply 105February 1, 2020 11:56 AM

I went to see this at a midnight showing and we laughed the entire way through.

It’s THAT ridiculous. My fav is when Julia Roberts dresses like a man to escape but her painted, manicured nails are on full display

by Anonymousreply 106February 1, 2020 12:34 PM

Didn't she have a huge bundle of cash hidden on that shelf when she swam back to the house? I dimly recall her shoving it into the go bag.

by Anonymousreply 108February 1, 2020 1:38 PM

The money thing never bothered me as I assumed she had been squiriling money away, either via her mother or in cash.

by Anonymousreply 109February 1, 2020 1:45 PM

Trashy but still entertaining. Does anyone else burst out laughing everytime the camera zooms in on Patrick Bergen's eyes bulging out of his head?

by Anonymousreply 110February 22, 2020 5:34 AM

The director Joseph Ruben's next thriller, "The Good Son"" with Macaulay Culkin, was even worse, but was another box office hit.

by Anonymousreply 111February 22, 2020 5:40 AM

Over 100 replies and no mention that Julia's mother is played by Myra Murdock??!!

You bitches are slipping.

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by Anonymousreply 112February 22, 2020 5:48 AM

Why does the ring float up the toilet months or weeks after it was initially flushed down?

by Anonymousreply 113February 22, 2020 6:14 AM

R111 at least The Good Son was more consistent tone-wise. But Macaulay's dad was probably a fucking nightmare behind the scenes.

by Anonymousreply 114February 22, 2020 12:58 PM

Patrick went on to some lackluster straight to video fair, playing the devil in the B-action/horror-comedy Highway to Hell and dressing in drag for the sex comedy All Tied Up.

by Anonymousreply 116February 22, 2020 1:39 PM

Lol when Martin mistakes the gay professor as Ben and knocks him upside the head with his gun, threatening to kill him and his “gentlemen friend” if he should go to the police.

by Anonymousreply 117February 22, 2020 1:40 PM

I love the product placement of Sara having a Jude Cole CD by her stereo. Jude Cole is a close friend of Keifer Sutherland’s, who Julia was engaged to at the time.

by Anonymousreply 118February 22, 2020 1:42 PM

This is one of those Lifetime woman-in-danger movie prototypes in which she has to “kill” the evil man four or five times in the end, right? I think I remember it being one of those in which she kills him after an overlong struggle and finally sighs or cries in relief and then HE COMES BACK!!! behind her with loud music. And she offs him again. And then HE COMES BACK AGAIN!!!!

I love these sorts of movies until the end. I’m waiting for one in which the woman gets it right the first time. Or else maybe she goes all in and shoots him and then cuts his throat, stabs him in the gut and dismembers him just in case. One or the other.

by Anonymousreply 119February 22, 2020 2:49 PM

I would love to see one of these movies where the woman checks and double checks to see if he's dead. She can shoot him a few times, realize that's not good enough, come back with a knife or axe and just go hog wild until she's drenched in blood and he's mush. That'd be great!

by Anonymousreply 120February 22, 2020 9:43 PM

R46 - “ I beg to differ, [R44]. Kevin Anderson was hot in this with that scruff and mop of thick, curly, reddish hair.”

I’m with you, R46. Kevin Anderson was cutie- hot, with an ass that could stop a speeding bullet. Woof.

by Anonymousreply 121March 18, 2020 1:29 AM

Kevin Anderson was fucking disgusting.

I don't get how she is so down to fuck right after leaving an abusive asshole. Reminds me of Thelma and Louise where she's begging to fuck Brad Pitt the minute after her attempted rape.

Why, after having an evening picnic (lol) with the new boyfriend, does she go inside her house to make toast? And she forgets about the toast because she's now decided to soak in the tub? Apparently, she owned the one toaster in hicksville that doesn't pop up the toast when done. All this after she told the corny af boyfriend "be right back!" Did he expect her to come right back?

She's supposed to be afraid of men yet she's prancing around, acting all sexy with no fucking pants? "Look at my legs in these fishnets!"

The funny scene where Julia is emoting how horrible the sex is with Martin...then he cums and she quickly puts on a happy face. Some one in the theater yelled, "stick it in her ass!"

by Anonymousreply 122March 18, 2020 4:11 AM

Maybe we can make a deal. I love pie.... *creepy serial killer stare*

by Anonymousreply 123March 18, 2020 4:51 AM

Patrick Bergin still has the moustache as of his appearance in EastEnders a couple of years ago

by Anonymousreply 124March 18, 2020 5:07 AM

Wasn't Bergin also in a version of Robin Hood that flopped after the Kevin Costner one beat it to theaters?

by Anonymousreply 125March 18, 2020 7:50 AM

I can't believe this movie is almost 30 years old.

by Anonymousreply 126June 23, 2020 7:51 AM

When I first heard about this film, I thought it was going to be some epic war or espionage romance. When it turned out to be a cheap thriller, I was disappointed and refused to ever see it. Years later, I finally watched and actually enjoyed it. It was scary and Roberts and Bergen were both good. The movie was inadvertently ahead of its time having confronted the fears women face with domestic violence.

by Anonymousreply 128June 23, 2020 8:39 AM

This is the movie that proved Julia Roberts was a bonafide movie star. Pretty Woman was considered a pretty decent romantic comedy that would have made a profit no matter who was cast. But Sleeping With the Enemy was universally panned and would have/should have opened and closed it's first weekend. But it immediately hit the 100 million mark because of Julia's name.

That's a movie star!

by Anonymousreply 129June 23, 2020 8:55 AM

[quote]The movie was inadvertently ahead of its time having confronted the fears women face with domestic violence.

Never heard of The Burning Bed?

by Anonymousreply 130June 23, 2020 6:03 PM

Hi R130. Yes. That was a really good TV movie. Fawcett was excellent.

Sleeping with the Enemy was a motion picture which made over $100M at the U.S. box-office.

Different mediums.

by Anonymousreply 131June 24, 2020 2:04 AM

I remember reading an interview with Patrick Bergin at the time and he was a conceited, pompous asshole. He said something like "I'm way more handsome than Tom Cruise, I don't understand why I don't get more leading man roles." And also something about Julia not being able to keep her hands off of him during their "love scenes". Um...EW. So maybe his massive ego kept him from having a bigger career. I just Googled him though, and he looks better now than he ever did then, I must admit. He's grown into a hot older guy.

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by Anonymousreply 132June 24, 2020 1:39 PM

I wish I could find a man to love me the way he loved Laura.

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by Anonymousreply 133June 24, 2020 2:21 PM

Roberts' movies after this were all awful until "My Best Friend's Wedding."

Bergin took the same train with Jeremy Northam from one shot as a leading man to nowhere.

by Anonymousreply 134June 24, 2020 2:35 PM

R113 the ring was still in the toilet because the stress of Julia drowning made the husband constipated😅

by Anonymousreply 135June 24, 2020 2:49 PM

Pretty sure he found the ring the first time he went back to the beach house after she disappeared. He was working and staying in the city.

by Anonymousreply 136June 24, 2020 2:53 PM

R134 and both if them were so fuckable in cult classics that I’ve seen dozens and dozens of times. :( what could have been....

by Anonymousreply 137June 24, 2020 2:59 PM

Why didn't she just kill the husband at the start of the movie?

by Anonymousreply 138June 24, 2020 3:04 PM

The Burning Bed was a much more realistic depiction of domestic violence.

In my real world experience, most women in domestic violence situations are not passive, shrinking violets. As I mentioned on another thread, I knew one couple with documented DV and if you saw them in public, you would never guess he beat her. They were both fun to be with and engaged in a playful banter that was almost endearing.

The problem with films like SWTE (which I do love for its ridiculous plot holes) is that it offers highly stereotypical portraits of perpetrator and victim. Then in real life people say, "Well, she seems assertive with him [in public], no way she's scared of him or being abused."

Ok, I'll descend from the soapbox.

by Anonymousreply 139June 24, 2020 3:46 PM

That's a good point R139.

by Anonymousreply 140June 24, 2020 3:49 PM

Worth it only because of the "American Dad" parody it inspired.

"Gentle song... gentle song..."

by Anonymousreply 141June 24, 2020 3:55 PM

How come Julia has never done nudity? Has she got misshapen tits?

by Anonymousreply 142June 24, 2020 3:56 PM

The weirdest part is when she goes into drag as the janitor--she looks nothing like a man.

Well, no: the weirdest part is the montage where she tries on hats.

by Anonymousreply 143June 24, 2020 4:04 PM

[quote]How come Julia has never done nudity? Has she got misshapen tits?

She showed them briefly in Pretty Woman

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by Anonymousreply 144June 24, 2020 6:51 PM

When she comes out of the bathroom and says “He sleeps” and the gets on the bed with him and sees that he’s actually awake.

by Anonymousreply 146June 24, 2020 6:54 PM

Julia was beautiful in it.

by Anonymousreply 147June 24, 2020 7:05 PM

This thread has inspired me to waste the rest of the afternoon watching this gem.

Thanks, bitches!

by Anonymousreply 148June 24, 2020 7:07 PM

Didn't they have a body double for Pretty Titty Woman?

by Anonymousreply 149June 24, 2020 7:09 PM

Julia Roberts looks so young!!

by Anonymousreply 150June 24, 2020 8:18 PM

What a SHITSHOW. I loved this film as a kid. You all have tainted me. I just watched on Amazon. Pure filth! And Julia is annoying as FUCK. That fucking laugh.

R80- Kevin Anderson lost that great head of hair! I checked IMDB, he hasn't worked much since 2014.

I found and find that Bergin guy REPULSIVE in this film- so unattractive. Gross. He was perfect.

by Anonymousreply 153June 27, 2020 8:38 PM

So during Rona I've been randomly watching 90s thrillers on Prime, Netflix, etc. The Net. Double Jeopardy. I finally hit this shit show.

THIS was a classic of the genre and one of the biggest movies of the year? I've seen better on Lifetime.

The score was fantastic. Yay, Jerry Goldsmith.

She goes to all this trouble, sets up a whole new life, and she cuts her hair and leaves her ring in the toilet?

You never really get the sense of danger and evil while they're together. He smacks her once.

And of course, she's so broken down that she had to fake her own death, but she falls in love with the first guy she meets.

by Anonymousreply 154December 15, 2020 7:40 AM

R154 what did you think of The Net and Double Jeopardy??

by Anonymousreply 155December 15, 2020 11:01 AM

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