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Sleeping with the Enemy
1991
· Movie
· 99 min
D
MEANRANK
59/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4174
- IMDb #3947
- Google retired #2253
- Rotten Tomatoes #4166
- Metacritic #3370
- Letterboxd #3613
+8 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4971
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3366
- Metacritic Critics #3624
- Metacritic Audience #2767
- Criticker #3012
- Kinopoisk #2188
- AlloCiné #2978
- Trakt #3305
Every rating
24–84
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 24, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 36, everyone else 64.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A woman is trapped in a violently abusive marriage with her controlling husband. She meticulously fakes her own death in a boating accident to escape him. She builds a new life and identity in a different town, but just as she begins to find happiness and trust again, she realizes her husband has discovered she is still alive and is coming for her.
Details
- Director
- Joseph Ruben
- Writer
- Ronald Bass
- Based on
- Sleeping with the Enemy by Nancy Price
- Released
- 13 January 1991
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $19.0M
- Box office
- $175.0M
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