Nov 01 2008
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
I’ve never been a fan of Julia Roberts. I don’t find her to be a good actor, I don’t find her to be attractive, and I don’t see the glamour of her being so popular.
As of late, I think her brother is the one with acting chops (see my ERIC ROBERTS post).
However in 1991, she made a small little thriller that exploded onto the screen and displayed what a harmful emotional and physical abuse can do to a marriage. Spousal abuse reared its ugly head in this realistic, not over-the-top thriller, SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. Based on the novel by Nancy Price, Roberts plays a battered wife, who fakes her own death to get away from psychopath husband Patrick Bergin. This film is full of thrills as two liner stories happen at the same time, we find Robert’s character living a new life under an assumed identity, and Bergin on the hunt of the jigsaw puzzle of his deceased wife. This story has some intense thrills, some genuine great acting and ending that is realistic and one an audience would actually stand up and cheer for.
Other than the film FLATLINERS this is probably the only other horror flick Julia Roberts has been in. She has been in thrillers before but they’ve all been subsequently the same film THE PELICAN BRIEF, I LOVE TROUBLE and CONSPIRACY THEORY. Take a viewing of SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY, it still holds up as a powerful thriller.
