Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) poster
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Sleeping with the Enemy

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Directed by Joseph Ruben

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband. From TMDB

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Sleeping with the Enemy is a 1991 drama thriller film, directed by Joseph Ruben, starring Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin and Kevin Anderson.

  • 93 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon
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  • Amy Koto, TV Fanatic Girl @tvfanaticgirl.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 11, 2026

    Movie Of The Day... Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

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  • Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2026

    As my movie education continues I've recently found out two important things: -Sleeping With the Enemy is NOT about Russian spies marrying into American families in the 1980s -Scent of a Woman is NOT a hardboiled mob crime drama

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  • Dumb Beezie @dumbbeezie.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 1, 2025

    I hate that movie Sleeping With the Enemy, I would never date a man with a mustache like that

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  • Zeb Cyrus 🎃👻🙀 @zbcy.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 30, 2025

    Books to films 📚=🎞️ Sleeping with the Enemy (1987) by Nancy Price was filmed in 1991. Some big changes for the film include the main characters being wealthy vs poor. The film is more of an action thriller vs the novel's heightened realism regarding domestic abuse/violence. 😨🔪❤️‍🔥 #filmsky #booksky

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  • Unchained Malady 🌛💫⸆⸉ @unchained-malady.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2024

    The thing making this extra jarring (to me) is, Julia Roberts also did a film back in the early 90s called Sleeping With The Enemy, in which she played a woman who faked her own death to escape an extremely dangerous, abusive husband. Hearing her voice over this scene really drives the point home.

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  • Pere Jes @perejes.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    This reminds me of the film "Sleeping with the Enemy" that portrays perfectly the behavior of an abusive partner. No one knows the horrors suffered in silence.

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  • J.L. DoomRona, Middle Grade Author 👻 🎃 @jldurona.comBluesky · Feb 8, 2026

    Merge two movie titles for an unsettling result: While You Were Sleeping With the Enemy

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  • Julie 🎃👻🎶 @juliemch.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2025

    #JuneMovieChallenge #filmsky 6/23. A movie where one spouse is trying to kill the other. Sleeping With The Enemy (1991)

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  • Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 24, 2025

    Going to do a 90’s movie thread including Weekend at Bernie’s for @karl-jacoby.bsky.social because distraction First me being a dork when I was Julia Robert’s stand in on Sleeping with the Enemy and we were hanging out in the makeup trailer.

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  • Hysteria Lives! @jakerswell.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 10, 2025

    Carl Reiner's FATAL INSTINCT (1993) is a zany spoof of From Hell movies (and film noir in general), taking pot shots at the likes of FATAL ATTRACTION and SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. The humour is very hit-or-miss, but it has some fun sight gags (and the skunk on the rollercoaster made me laugh!).

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  • tru @thetrudz.photoBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    Insert a movie into another movie Sleeping with the Enemy of the State

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  • Simon Abrams, King of the Witches @simonsaybrams.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 12, 2025

    The cherry on top: the real reason his movie failed was that everybody's girlfriends wanted to see SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. Women! Smdh.

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2025

    #OctoberMovieChallenge Day 28 - favorite Julia Roberts movie Sleeping With the Enemy #filmsky #moviesky

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  • Joe Lipsett @joelipsett.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 24, 2025

    I checked out #lifetime movie MURDER AT THE LIGHTHOUSE before its debut tonight and while I can’t say the whole film works, when it does SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY or ENOUGH, I’m fully locked in Here’s my @bloody-disgusting.com review 👇

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  • Count DookURLa 🎃 @dookofurl.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 4, 2025

    Insert a movie into another movie While You Were Sleeping with the Enemy Mine

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  • geotone.bsky.social @geotone.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 28, 2025

    #OctoberMovieChallenge #MovieSky #FilmSky Chose this one over Steel Magnolia It is a really good physiological thriller and she nailed the roll! 10/28~ Favorite Julia Roberts movie 🎥 Sleeping with the Enemy 1990

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  • tiffAH! Real Monster @bakedpotiffa.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 15, 2025

    Share one of your “Secret Favorite” films. Not a film everyone knows you love, but one you love that you rarely ever show love for 🎥🖤 Sleeping with the Enemy

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  • ToddFather @bobloblaw72.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2026

    So far I've seen homages to: Rear Window Ghost Story The Shining Basic Instinct Sleeping With The Enemy Cape Fear And it didn't turn out to be a very good movie. Are we SURE AI scripts didn't exist in the 90's?🤔🤣 #FrightClub #WhatLiesBeneath

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  • Steve Williams @hardcut.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 10, 2025

    #31daysofhorror - Film 11 The Invisible Man A proper rewatchable classic. Leigh Whannell channels Sleeping with the Enemy in this fabulously tense subversion of a classic horror. Moss is outstanding, in this a tight, taut and gory study of coercive control. LOVE ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

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  • Olivia Quinn @oliviaquinn.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2026

    She’s an incredibly talented actor, I’m a huge fan. The work she’s done lately is top notch & all her younger roles, romcom or not, are all exceptional. Except Sleeping With The Enemy. People put this film on a pedestal. I suppose it was groundbreaking for the time, but it watches really basic now…

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 11, 2026

    #JanuaryMovieChallenge Day 11 - someone hides in a movie Laura Burney - Sleeping With the Enemy #filmsky #moviesky

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  • Andrea-#bb1-#bb28 (grain of salt incl.) @andrea1461.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 21, 2025

    ..and spot on. Sleeping With The Enemy is a terrifying movie... and one of the few I've watched multiple times. A twisted reminder, if you will. 😶 #BB27 #bblf #BBSky

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  • Scared Sane @scaredsane.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    I never asked why this movie and ‘Sleeping With the Enemy’ were on a constant loop in my house when I was 12-years-old. But thanks mom! You made me weird in all the best ways. Think I just got my idea for a Mother’s Day Article… 🤔

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  • Entropy Sloth @entropysloth.bsky.socialBluesky · May 1, 2025

    Sleeping With The Enemy I think it might be the only movie of hers I've seen, but it was really good.

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  • David Cornelius @davidcornelius.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 18, 2026

    When we saw Sleeping with the Enemy, the title card popped up and a guy flatly said "sleeping with the enema" and nobody could take the rest of the movie seriously. Two hours of nonstop giggles thanks to one deadpan dude.

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  • TB @realtombrowne.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2025

    If you’re tired of Xmas movies and a fan of ’90s psychological/erotic thrillers like Sleeping with the Enemy, Single White Female, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, you’re gonna dig The Housemaid. A fun, campy movie based on the book. I really enjoyed it. #scriptsky #filmsky

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  • Suzan the chalant goth @sillysyntax.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2024

    Someone mentioned Sleeping with the Enemy and I cannot think of that movie without Run Around Sue popping in my head. Keep away from Sue everyone. She's trouble. 😉 youtu.be/nFch8vH81ks?...

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  • Derry Sketcher @derrysketcher.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2024

    My husband has a woeful film knowledge. There are so many films he’s never seen so tonight’s educational lesson is The Hunt for Red October. It’s so good watching his eyebrows rise when he sees the cast at the start of the film. Earlier today I had him watch Sleeping With the Enemy.

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  • Sarcasmo Ultra BLAM! @sarcasmoultrablam.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 5, 2026

    Victims of abuse know not to rock the boat unless they want MORE ABUSE. Anybody ever see the movie "Sleeping With The Enemy"? Victims play nice to save themselves.

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  • 🏳️‍🌈 Loud Little Ladybug 💫🖤 @loudladybug.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    I was reminded of the movie Sleeping with the Enemy the other day. Just because it's not that scary level of dangerous relationship doesn't mean you still don't have to pull out some of the stops from that movie to get away from a toxic individual.

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  • Andrea-#bb1-#bb28 (grain of salt incl.) @andrea1461.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 17, 2026

    It's not unbelievable that you can find certain beauty in spite of the unfathomable, 💛🫶 As a survivor of YA-IPV *and* CPA, I have watched "Sleeping With The Enemy" on many a repeat without issue. Film/docs/media related to CPA/CA-N at the hands of females? A whole other monster that I shy from. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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  • Tom Traub @tomtraub.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2026

    The song SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY ran through my mind yesterday. Never saw the movie, but the song is catchy as hell.

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  • Chipotle Roan @garbageganghq.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 24, 2025

    This Giallo take on Sleeping With The Enemy and Diabolique feels like a Lifetime movie with lots of nudity, violence and a little kink. If you can get into the overall weird vibes, there’s something to enjoy here. 3/5

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  • Amethyst Sky 🌲🌼 @amethystsky7.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 20, 2025

    It should scare you very badly that the 2 times he dropped his mask in 10 years, he hurt you severely. The movie “Sleeping with the Enemy” keeps playing in my mind. The husband in that movie was rarely abusive, but the times he was, were extremely life-threatening.

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  • Broken Brimlee 💦🥩 @brokenbrimlee.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2025

    I remember as a kid seeing advertisements for the movie “Sleeping with the Enemy” and thinking well thats a terrible idea

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  • Deborah Foster, PhD, author, AuDHD, EDS @deborah-foster.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 5, 2025

    Choose 20 movies that have greatly influenced you, one a day for 20 days, no explanations, no reviews, just posters. #Movies #Filmsky #moviechallenge Day 20-Sleeping with the Enemy (I know, no notes but I had to say I had lunch with the author of the book)

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  • Realweegiemidget Reviews Films, TV, Books and More @realweegiemidget.eurosky.socialBluesky · Dec 28, 2024

    December 28. Set or filmed in Iowa for @stonegasman.bsky.social #StonegasMovieChallenge2024 In Sleeping with the Enemy, #JuliaRoberts as an abused wife fakes her death and moves to Cedar Falls.. just one of the films in this list weegiemidget.wordpress.com/random-real-...

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  • Moo 💀 @tactless-skull.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 10, 2024

    "Wooaaaaaah... hey, hey" Also used in the cautionary film Sleeping With the Enemy. Featuring Patrick Bergin who bristled ominously.

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  • karenrambo.bsky.social @karenrambo.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2026

    Add “for tax purposes” to a movie: Sleeping With The Enemy For Tax Purposes.

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  • Dr. J (not that one) @biggray.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 14, 2026

    They repeated things that had already been LONG revealed in the dreary exposition. And I thought the movie, for its faults, didn’t make anything an inscrutable mystery! It’s like a click more complex than Sleeping with the Enemy.

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  • "Mooch" Calucci 🤞 @moochcalucci.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 3, 2026

    Well that's something we see happening in the film "Sleeping with the Enemy". In one scene we see Julia Roberts getting knocked across the room, and shows up at a dinner party with her husband later that same evening. There appears to be a cloak of secrecy around what's happening. The woman...

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  • Andrea-#bb1-#bb28 (grain of salt incl.) @andrea1461.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2026

    Sleeping with the Enemy I've seen this movie too many times and I'm not sure why I keep rewatching it because it should trigger me #bb28

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  • Fairy lily @fairylilyjojo.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2026

    #nowwatching 1st viewing of my 1256th title from my movie jar: Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) #filmsky #letterboxd #blindmoviejar

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  • Connor [REDACTED] @connorredacted.bsky.socialBluesky · May 15, 2026

    Sleeping with the Enemy is just a Lifetime movie introduced to Julia Roberts's cocaine stash. Alternatively, it's a Charles Bronson Cannon film in drag.

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  • alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇 @[email protected]Mastodon · May 13, 2026

    Official #Trailer #SLEEPINGWITHTHEENEMY (1991, #JuliaRoberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI3yUMQrCvU&theme=dark Can't remember if I had already mentioned/posted that this one is a #fave #movie. Sorry if I'm repeating myself.

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  • middlechildcomplex.bsky.social @middlechildcomplex.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 26, 2026

    It was a double showing. Don’t remember the first film, but Sleeping With the Enemy was the headliner.

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  • Admit One Daily @admitonedailyMastodon · Apr 4, 2026

    These days this is the kind of film that would appear without fanfare on your Netflix feed. Back in the early 90s it grossed $175 million despite generally poor reviews. Opened at No. 2 in the UK behind Highlander II: The Quickening. Surely it was better than that! #admitonedaily #sleepingwiththeenemy #1990smovies #ticketstub https://callsheetapp.com/movie/7442

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  • Linktr.ee/LeeAndreDaniels @mightykinglewer.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 1, 2026

    Ready for the finale?? The last song i made “Sleeping with the Enemy” by Lee Andre Daniels on Bandcamp is A motherforking movie. Sure it was made in 1991 but hey, I want you to appreciate the effort 🤗#SleepingWithTheEnemy leeandredaniels.bandcamp.com/track/sleepi...

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  • Nick Donellan @resistdictators.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 23, 2025

    The phrase "dodgy bloke sleeping with the enemy" refers to the 1991 movie, Sleeping with the Enemy, which features a controlling and abusive husband, Martin Burney, played by Patrick Bergin. #askwxm

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  • Jadedreviewer 🌊 @jadedreviewer.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2025

    Loved the book. It reminded me of the thriller movie Sleeping with the Enemy meets a great cozy romance. So good.

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  • Debra Davidson @debralhd.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    Sounds a whole lot like obsessive compulsive disorder. Might be time to watch the 1991 Julia Roberts movie 'Sleeping With the Enemy'.

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  • shainanigans 🪲 @texastogepi.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2025

    I didn’t grow up in a movie watching household (except for like the same 4 movies that were always on TV, like Die Hard and Sleeping With the Enemy), and nowadays my decision paralysis is too bad to choose what movies to watch on my own 😇

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  • Ruth Spanos @rspanos.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2025

    To me a bad date movie would be Sleeping with the Enemy or anything about someone who has one date and then turns into a stalker.

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  • Free Your Bile and the Ants Will Follow @rureal.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2025

    heh heh. It was some dude in the late 60's. There was an NBC movie about it in 1999. Kevin Anderson (The nice guy from Sleeping With The Enemy 1991)

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  • Van3ssaV 🦋 @shewithcapitalv.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 19, 2024

    Yes! I don't think he's got kids but his wife loves it all apparently. He also loves to cook so imagine how spotless his kitchen is 😬 Sleeping With The Enemy is a great film!

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  • Anne-Marie Leake @ajleake.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 1, 2024

    Took me a sec to realize you did NOT say Sleeping With The Enemy 🤪🤪 Our all-time favorite holiday movie is Shop Around the Corner.

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  • GraemeK @graemek73.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 18, 2024

    Tonight’s movie choice - Sleeping With The Enemy, the psychological thriller from 1991. Starring among others - Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, and Kevin Anderson. A woman is forced to change her looks & her identity, to escape the most dangerous man she's ever known, her husband.

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  • Fade to black ⚫️ @fade-to-black.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 13, 2024

    100% FTB⚫️ 🎬 1991 film Sleeping with the Enemy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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  • Johnny Killoran @johnnykilloran.comBluesky · Nov 11, 2024

    Wow. This is whatever-Julia-Roberts'-character's-name-was-in-SLEEPING-WITH-THE-ENEMY--a movie I have not seen--erasure.

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  • ☢️Dangerously Radioactive M. O’Lybdenum☢️ @perchorin.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 9, 2024

    Sleeping with the Enemy was very much not a “Netflix and Chill” movie.

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