Man, some of the reviews here!First off, some of the questions raised were the exact same things mentioned in Roger Ebert's review (so much for originality!). And they were answered pretty reasonably by reviewer hawk-58.Second, since when do we expect a movie to hold our hands and provide all the answers to questions that may come up? Sometimes you have to fill in the blanks yourself. Plot holes? Hey, these are movies, not real life. If plot holes make you mad then it might be time to consider not watching movies anymore!Third, since when do we expect characters to never make mistakes? The story was unrealistic because Laura made a few errors. Newsflash! People mess up all the time in real life. If they didn't, criminals would never be caught by the police. And frankly, I don't think she messed up as much as some of the reviews imply...again, it's human nature to make some miscalculations and not take certain things into account.This is certainly not a terrible film, but not a great one either. It's about average, so 6/10 seems right. It's entertaining enough if you have a couple of hours to kill and enjoy the genre, and if your expectations aren't unreasonable.

Laura and Martin have been married for four years. They seem to be the perfect, happiest and most successful couple. The reality of their household, however, is very different. Martin is an abusive and brutally obsessed husband. Laura is living her life in constant fear and waits for a chance to escape. She finally stages her own death, and flees to a new town and new identity. But when Martin finds out that his wife is not dead he will stop at nothing to find and kill her.....After the success of Pretty Woman, it was inevitable that Roberts would be huge, and the next few films she starred in would be guaranteed hits, regardless of their quality. In 1991, she starred in two dodgy movies, Dying Young, and this shlockfest.It's the kind of film that has a woman explain a plot point over the phone to the villain, and has someone search for clues in a box labelled 'Laura's Personal Records'.Despite the absurdity of it all though, Roberts is good, and Bergin is the funniest pantomime villain, and plays the role with the right amount of cheese.This is the film to thank when you think of other films like, Single White Female, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle, and Unlawful Entry.Its a load of old cobblers, but its funny cobblers.And Roberts looks like Michael J Fox when dressed as a man.

Sleeping With The Enemy is a 1991 thriller about a young woman played by Julia Roberts,who fakes her own death and runs away from her abusing controlling husband Martin played by Irish Actor Patrick Bergin (who played Anne Hathaway's father in Ella Enchanted)who at first seems to be the perfect husband until he changes into a wife beater from hell who is so obsessive with his wife and very dangerous. Now with a new identity Laura is now known as Sarah Waters and she lives in Iowa a place that is near her blind mother who is apparently in a nursing home. Problems arise however when "Sarah" falls for her next door neighbor who she later confesses about her controlling husband.But since she is enjoying her new life as Sarah Waters will her controlling wife beating husband find her and threaten her again? and can Laura finally get rid of her husband once and for all.Bottom line I've been a fan of Julia Roberts ever since Pretty Woman and The Runaway Bride and frankly she did a good job as the victim of domestic abuse,while Bergin was excellent as the wife beater from hell with his crazy expressions and his weird plans.Similar to the 2013 film Safe Haven its sorta different to that cause in Safe Haven you got a woman like Roberts on the run,falls for a guy who in Safe Haven is a widowed father and his wife died years ago,also in Safe Haven there's this woman who helps the girl who is the victim of domestic abuse and in Sleeping With The Enemy there is none of that. But yeah Sleeping With The Enemy is a real suspense thriller and if your a fan of Roberts than check it out.Overall its an 8 out of 10.

I enjoyed this movie on a few levels, and there where things that I found totally unbelievable. The story line is basic: an abused woman who flees from her abuser, the enemy, who happens to be her husband. I picked up something watching a second time. It was when the abused woman (Julia Roberts) calls her mother who was blind and in a care facility. The main character said she had a job and was making her own money. It made me think that possibly the reason she may have remained in the abusive relationship was because she didn't know if she could make it on her own (support herself) without him. She was young and beautiful, but basically uneducated. She is wined and dined by a rich, handsome, powerful man (a policeman) that she marries, thinking he was her prince charming and she his princess. His OCD and lack of ability to view her as a human but only as a possession means a horrible existence for her, filled with fear, as he beats her and completely controls every aspect of her life. She plans her escape and waits for the opportunity, and then it presents itself. Here is where the plot begins to become unbelievable to me. When the impromptu opportunity arises, and time is of her essence for her to make her escape, she takes the time to cut her hair, change her clothes, throw her wedding ring in the toilet, and basically leave a ton of clues that she didn't perish the way he was going to think she perished.This is possibly her once in a lifetime opportunity to get away from this monster and she risks it by taking time at their home doing things that could easily have waited. Of course, she finds a love interest in a town far away. But I think the movie failed to really show the fall-back of women who have been abused for years. I think it would have been much harder that they portrayed it and I think she would have looked over her shoulder for years, possibly always. Forget about sitting on the front porch so soon after she escaped. I also didn't believe the mother daughter relationship. Maybe it was her grandmother and I missed it? Anyway, it lacked believability. And even though the mother didn't know the husband, she did know her daughter had to show up in male disguise to see her and had flown for her life and still harboring fear of being recognized and it getting back to him somehow. As a mother, I would have been way too hesitant to talk to someone who just showed up in my room asking questions about my kid without knowing exactly who I was speaking with. This mother just handed up the info and every detail to the psycho husband. Yes, I know she couldn't see him, but she knew enough about the situation to have been on guard.Lastly, in the final scene when she calls the police to report she had just shot an intruder, why not simply say the truth. She had just shot her husband? Ben was there to back things up (albeit he had been knocked out by the husband). Was this abused woman ever going to get her real identity back now? I thought this could have been much better by being more realistic.