Les nuits avec mon ennemi

Original title: Sleeping with the Enemy

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6.3/10

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A librarian fakes her death to escape her abusive marriage and start a new life elsewhere, but her husband manages to track her down.A librarian fakes her death to escape her abusive marriage and start a new life elsewhere, but her husband manages to track her down.A librarian fakes her death to escape her abusive marriage and start a new life elsewhere, but her husband manages to track her down.

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IMDb RATING

6.3/10

68K

YOUR RATING

POPULARITY

2,570

158

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Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations total

Mrs. Nepper
(as Bonnie Cook)

Graham Harrington

Minister

John Ward

Theater Student
(as John David Ward)

Sharon J. Robinson

Sharon the Nurse

John Lindley

Patt Noday

Amusement Park Guy #2
(uncredited)

Ron Reedy

Doctor
(uncredited)

Director
- Joseph Ruben
Writers
- Nancy Price
- Ron Bass
All cast & crew
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Trivia
Julia Roberts, who was 22 when the film was shot in the spring of 1990, became the youngest actress to earn a seven-figure fee for a single performance.

Goofs
(at around 14 mins) When Laura throws a stone at the street light by the beach, the stone clearly misses the bulb, yet it breaks anyway.

Quotes
Laura: That was the night that I died, and someone else was saved. Someone who was afraid of water, but learned to swim. Someone who knew there would be one moment, where he wouldn't be watching. Someone who knew that the darkness of the broken lights would show the way.

Crazy credits
The 20th Century Fox logo plays without the fanfare.

Alternate versions
When Laura first goes to Ben's house for dinner and the pot roast is on fire she knocks and says "Fire Department." In an alternate cut she knocks and asks "Is this what they mean by warm welcome?".

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Queens Logic/Run/Meet the Applegates/The Vanishing (1991)

Soundtracks
Runaround Sue
Written by Dion DiMucci and Ernie Maresca
Performed by Dion DiMucci (as Dion)
Courtesy of Laurie Records

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Featured review

My First Julia Roberts Movie

Unlike some, I LIKE this lady and this is my favourite film of hers. After watching it for the nth time I was moved to buy the book on which it is based and this is a far more complex affair than the film, which simplifies everything and leaves out several characters altogether. I think Nancy Price did a far better job of studying an abused wife, who never really stopped loving her brute of a husband, than the makers of the film. It depicts Sara/Laura as a far more interesting character than the somewhat insipid Julia Roberts version.

If you have read the book, then some little touches in the film (i.e. - African Violets) become clearer.