Movie Review - Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

Starring Julia Roberts and Two Guys You've Never Heard Of
Directed by Joseph Ruben

For some reason or another, this Julia Roberts movie along with Flatliners have been in my Netflix queue for years but I never got around to watching them. Well, I checked this out on demand tonight and it was just an empty flick. I was viewing this one and couldn't help but think that this was like some cheesy tv movie that my mom would watch on Sunday nights on ABC, CBS, or NBC when I was growing up starring some awful soap opera star enacting revenge on a hurtful husband. The only difference between those tv movies and this is that Sleeping with the Enemy stars Julia Roberts instead of Susan Lucci.

Julia Roberts plays a woman abused by her husband. One day, she decides enough is enough and she stages her own death as a means to escape the relationship. She skedaddles to Iowa where she hopes to live her life carefree, but she's always on edge that her husband may be coming after her...and she may have a reason to be nervous.

The problem here is that it feels exactly like a tv movie. The acting's just okay, the music's cheesy, and the story feels like it tailor-made for commercial breaks.

Somehow I must have known this wasn't really worth the watch hence the lingering of this one in the queue for years...doesn't bode well for Flatliners...

The RyMickey Rating: D+