Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) - Theatrical Trailer - © 20th Century Fox

Film: Sleeping with the Enemy.


Starring: Julia Roberts as Laura Burney, Patrick Bergin as Martin Burney and Kevin Anderson as Ben Woodward.


Directed by: Joseph Ruben.


Story written by: Nancy Price "Sleeping with the Enemy" (novel)


Screenplay & Dialogues written by: Ronald Bass.


Distributed by: © 20th Century Fox.


Theatrical Release Date: February 8, 1991 (USA)


Niceties by: http://www.youtube.com/IAmOnlyLove



Synopsis!
"Sleeping with the Enemy" is a 1991 psychological thriller film based on a 1987 novel of the same name by Nancy Price, starring Julia Roberts, who escapes from her abusive, obsessive husband, played by Patrick Bergin. She captures the attention of a kindly gentleman, played by Kevin Anderson.

Plot!
Laura Burney (Julia Roberts) presumably has everything any woman can ever want, a beautiful home, a handsome and wealthy investment counselor husband, and any material pleasure she could desire. However, her marriage is not all that it seems.

Her abusive, possessive husband Martin (Patrick Bergin), is a controlling man who one day interprets her interaction with a neighbor at their beach home as flirting and strikes her in the face and kicks her as she lies helpless on the floor. From further discussions in the course of the movie, we come to understand that the abuses are ongoing and began immediately after marriage.

Laura sees her way out by planning and faking her own disappearance at sea in a storm off Cape Cod near the couple's luxurious ocean-view home. Martin attends her funeral when her body is not found.

In flashback, we see how she swims to safety, having taken swimming lessons at the YWCA. 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 her husband that her mother 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.

Picking apples from a neighbor's garden one day she is caught by the owner, Ben Woodward (Kevin Anderson), who teases her about stealing them. After a poor beginning, Ben asks Laura to dinner, where he tells her that he teaches drama at the local college, but Laura tells him nothing about herself.

Martin is enraged to learn from a chance phone call from a friend of Laura's from the YWCA that Laura had been taking swimming lessons. Martin believes that the friend is talking about someone else until the woman mentions the bruises on Laura's body, which Laura claimed to get from gymnastics. Martin heads off home to do detective work. He finds the ring in the toilet bowl where it failed to flush, and sets out to find her. From the Cape Cod nursing home, he finds out that Laura's mother isn't dead, and using a detective agency he traces her to her new nursing home in Iowa. He visits the blind woman, Chloe Williams (Elizabeth Lawrence), without revealing his identity.

Meanwhile Laura and Ben have a falling-out when he discovers that her real name is not Sara. They make up with a date at the college. Laura rejects a pass from Ben, and tearfully begs him to leave. The next day she confesses that she is on the run from an abusive husband.

Martin and Laura, who is in disguise, show up at the nursing home at the same time, but they do not see one another. Posing as a policeman warning Chloe about the dangerous Martin Burney, he learns from her that her daughter is seeing a college drama teacher in nearby Cedar Falls. Martin is about to smother her with a pillow, when a nurse arrives and unknowingly thwarts him.

Martin visits the wrong college drama teacher and threatens him with a gun. The man protests that he is gay, and Martin knocks him unconscious. Martin finds Laura and Ben and clandestinely follows them to the fair and back to her home. Laura first knows something is up through a series of seemingly random mishaps: her bath overflows, her toast burns, and the canned goods in her kitchen cupboard are lined up meticulously (one of Martin's idiosyncrasies). Then she hears the Symphonie fantastique, a musical piece Martin used to like to make love to. She then hears Ben at the door. As she makes her way to the door, she sees Martin's reflection. He pulls a gun and threatens to kill Ben if she doesn't get rid of him. She talks to him through the door's security chain and begs off from their date.

After closing the door, Martin resumes his conversation with Laura. Ben, hearing them, breaks down the door and struggles with Martin, who knocks him unconscious with the butt of his pistol. He aims the gun at Ben's head.

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• 1991
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• Patrick
• Bergin
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• Ruben
• Nancy
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• Escape
• Stalker
• Police
• Stalking
• Deception
• Obsession
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• Abusive-Husband
• Obsessive-Love
• Battered-Woman
• Revenge
• Iowa
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• Assumed-Identity
• Psycho-Thriller
• Starting-Over
• Marital-Abuse
• Woman-In-Jeopardy
• Domestic-Violence
• Spouse
• On-The-Run
• Captive
• Betrayal
• Based-On-Novel

[LuvYa120]

awesome movie!!!

hahaha

'Laura!!!'' how funny =]

[BlushingCanary]

good film!

[MrS98VAC]

The husband is so SEXY !!

[Addiskrilla]

I wonder if that ever happened to somebody in real life?

[KalissaFluffy1]

i watched it today with my class *clap* wow

[karatejack1996]

is this like a big budget lifetime television film?

[bigbrownlatino]

The movie has been coming on cable lately, Starz.

[2BFamous100]

i luv the old 'scary music' they used to play in almost every film back then :)

[GangsterChickys]

the man with the mustache scared me.

[KrimpenDrummer]

Hórrible trailer, don't really feel like watching the movie

[SupermanSmallville1]

I hate the guys voice in the trailer.