Sign In. Play trailer Drama Thriller. Director Joseph Ruben. Nancy Price novel Ronald Bass screenplay. Top credits Director Joseph Ruben. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Official Trailer. Photos Top cast Edit. Kyle Secor Fleishman as Fleishman. Claudette Nevins Dr. Rissner as Dr. Tony Abatemarco Locke as Locke. Marita Geraghty Julie as Julie. Harley Venton Garber as Garber. Sandi Shackelford Edna as Edna. Bonnie Johnson Mrs. Nepper as Mrs. Nepper as Bonnie Cook.
It was actually filmed in Abbeville, South Carolina. No time frame is given in the movie. However, it could be surmised that a few months passed. Consider that the movie starts in a beach-front home on Cape Cod where Laura and Martin are vacationing. When Laura arrives In Sioux City, Iowa, it was still summer in the scenes where kids are cooling off in the fountain and lawns are being watered, and when she is seen sitting on her front porch in early evening, and many scenes indicate it is summer.
Yet when Martin showed up at Chloe's previous nursing home in Minneapolis, he's wearing a trench coat and leaves were falling, so it was starting to get cooler. This would be summer to fall, meaning a month at least, possibly two. Laura now Sarah goes to the fair with Ben. Martin shows up, sees them, and follows them home.
Ben goes to his house and Laura to hers. She takes a bath, all the while feeling a tad suspicious. She climbs out of the tub soaking wet, because the hand towels look suspicious.
Ben comes in and scares Laura by accident. Ben and Laura have dinner on the lawn, all the while being watched by Martin. After dinner, she goes home and starts to make toast. She then turns on her tape deck and the scary Berlioz music starts to play, but she shrugs it off. She goes upstairs and notices that she has accidentally left her water in the bathtub running and it is now overflowing.
She pulls the drain plug and turns off the water. The fire alarm then goes off. Her toast has started to burn and the toaster is now smoking. She pulls the plug to the toaster and it sparks and the power goes out. She shrieks. The power comes back on. She then notices her kitchen towels are in order. She gets more suspicious and crosses the kitchen floor and reaches the cabinet.
Slowly, she opens the doors and realizes that all of her canned goods are in perfect order they were not before, she always kept them messy so she would not be reminded of Martin. She starts crying hysterically. She runs to the front door. Here, though, she'd be no supervillain. Seeing her take on the hulking Harbour would be a much more realistic though potentially frightening, if done well dynamic.
This time, his pining for her would be at the will of the writer, not relegated to revisionist history. There are also plot details in the original film that could be cleaned up. Martin informing Laura that he's found her via adjusting the towels in the bathroom at which point she could just run wouldn't play for a modern audience. With Robbie also on as a producer a second role she commonly takes on during a film's production , she could assist in guiding the ship towards full believability.
A former Therapeutic Day Treatment counselor, Ben is now a career writer. When not working, he is writing and self-publishing on Amazon novels under the name Scott Gray. In his spare time, he's reading on the porch or watching every film under the sun. Ben can be contacted at scottgraywrk gmail. By Ben Hathaway Published Aug 29, Share Share Tweet Email 0.
After " Carrie " and " Halloween ," where this gimmick worked, and after the countless dreary times since then when it has reappeared with clockwork monotony, isn't it time for a new twist on the gimmick? Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
Patrick Bergin as Martin. Kevin Anderson as Ben. Elizabeth Lawrence as Chloe. Kyle Secor as Fleishman. Claudette Nevins as Dr. Reviews Sleeping with the Enemy. Roger Ebert February 08, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing.
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