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DVD Sleeping with the Enemy
This 1991 thriller by Joseph Ruben (True Believer) works up to a point: Julia Roberts plays an abused wife who fakes her death and starts anew under a different identity in Iowa. Her psychopathic husband (Patrick Bergin) figures it out and stalks her and her new boyfriend (Kevin Anderson). The best part of the film is the moody isolation of Roberts's life with Bergin. Ruben ingeniously stakes out the story by presenting what looks like an ideal life between the two--a nice house on the ocean, a seemingly healthy sex life, etc.--and then, whammo! Vital to the plot but less interesting is everything afterward, but that's less an inherent script problem than it is obvious studio pressure to push Roberts as a cute star. There's even a sequence where the actress tries on a series of hats while Van Morrison's "Brown Eyed Girl" plays on the soundtrack. Such insistent valentines to Roberts destroys most of Ruben's momentum and the film's credibility, and the project never quite recovers. --Tom Keogh
Sleeping with the Enemy is a good movie about a woman who is on the run from her abusive husband and stars Julia Roberts as the wife and Patrick Bergin as her violent husband and they both did some good acting and I felt really bad for Julia's character but I was glad when she got away from him.
A Good Movie.
Sleeping with the Enemy is a good movie about a woman named Laura who changes her name to Sarah after she runs away from her abusive husband and stars Julia Roberts as Laura/Sarah and Patrick Bergin as her violent husband and they both did some good acting and I felt really bad for Julia's character but I was glad when she got away from him.
How Come Julia Didn't Just Divorce This Geek Like In Real Life?
This is a very tiring Suspense/Thriller starring Julia Roberts who plays "A Professional Victim" to this Anally Retentive Geek that she is married to. Then to escape from the geek she fakes her own death and relocates to another town but the geek is soon hot on her trail. For the life of me I can't understand why Julia didn't just file for divorce, get a Restraining Order and take her husband to the cleaners? That would have been more believeable and it happens every day in your friendly local neighbourhood. I give this movie 5 stars because I do like the look of the town that Julia moves to.
This well-intentioned but strangely cold tale concerns an emotionally repressed Southern belle (Julia Roberts) who separates from her husband (Dennis Quaid) after discovering he is an unabashed philanderer. Pressed by her dominating father (Robert Duvall) into reconciling with her spouse, Roberts's character chafes against so much male control over her destiny. Defended by a fiercely independent sister (a catchy performance by Kyra Sedgwick), the heroine develops the nerve to plot her own course in life while her mother (Gena Rowlands) finds the gumption to throw her own mate out of the house. The script by Callie Khouri (Thelma & Louise) is intelligent but hardly clear, and direction by Lasse Hallström (Once Around) can't keep Khouri's unfocused scenes and uncertain... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Julia Roberts - Dennis Quaid Director(s): Lasse Hallström DVD Release Date: Released the 14 December 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Another John Grisham legal thriller comes to the screen, pairing Denzel Washington and Julia Roberts in a film directed by Alan J. Pakula, who is known for dark-hued suspense pictures such as Klute, The Parallax View,All the President's Men, and Presumed Innocent. The Pelican Brief isn't up to the level of those films, but it is a perfectly entertaining movie about a law student (Roberts) whose life is endangered when she discovers evidence of a conspiracy behind the killings of two Supreme Court justices. She enlists the help of an investigative reporter (Washington) and the two become fugitives. The charisma and chemistry of the leads goes a long way toward compensating for the story's shortcomings, as does a truly impressive supporting cast that... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Julia Roberts - Denzel Washington Director(s): Alan J. Pakula DVD Release Date: Released the 27 August 1997 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Like a pumpkin that transforms into a carriage, some very shrewd casting (and the charisma of Julia Roberts, in particular) morphed this story of a Hollywood whore into a Disneyfied Cinderella story--and a mainstream megahit. This is the movie that made Roberts a star; the charm of her personality helping tremendously to carry viewers over the rough spots in the script (which was originally a cynical tale about prostitution called 3000--after the amount of money Richard Gere's character pays the prostitute to stay with him for the week). Gere is the silver-haired Wall Street knight who sweeps streetwalker Roberts into a fantasy world of room service at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel and fashion boutique shopping on Rodeo Drive. The supporting cast is also appealing,... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Richard Gere - Julia Roberts Director(s): Garry Marshall DVD Release Date: Released the 01 February 2000 Usually ships in 7 to 13 days
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Much will be made of Julia Roberts's wardrobe in Erin Brockovich--a brash parade of daring hemlines and Wonderbra confidence. Roberts is unabashedly sexy in the title role of this fact-based comedy-drama, but she and director Steven Soderbergh are far too intelligent to rely solely on high heels and cleavage. Susannah Grant's brassy screenplay fuels this winning combination of star, director, and material, firing on all pistons with maximum efficiency. With Ed Lachman, his noted cinematographer from The Limey, Soderbergh tackles this A-list project with the fervor of an independent, combining a no-frills look with kinetic panache and the same brisk editorial style he used in the justly celebrated Out of Sight.
A potboiler featuring a demented caretaker and a seemingly hapless suburban family, this is The Nanny of the 1990s. However, it is much more predictable than that 1965 Bette Davis psychodrama, and more graphic. It works only because Rebecca De Mornay makes us intensely uncomfortable as the disturbed au pair who wants to take care of much more than her employer's well-being.
Annabella Sciorra plays the perfect mother of a flawless family. Her obstetrician, however, is less than wonderful, having enjoyed her examination much more than he should have. When she files sexual harassment charges against the repugnant doctor, he loses face--literally--after shooting himself in the head. Several months later, an ideal nanny shows up at her home. You guessed it--she's the doc's... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Annabella Sciorra - Rebecca De Mornay Director(s): Curtis Hanson DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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