Julia Roberts Her next film was the commercially successful thriller "Sleeping with the Enemy" (1991), in which she took on the role of a battered wife who escapes her abusive husband, played by Patrick Bergin, and begins a new life in Iowa. Roberts played Tinkerbell in Steven Spielberg's "Hook", and starred as a nurse in Joel Schumacher's romance film "Dying Young"; both films were also released in 1991, to a highly positive commercial response. Roberts took a two-year hiatus from the screen, during which she made no films other than a cameo appearance in Robert Altman's "The Player" (1992). In early 1993,
The House of the Sleeping Beauties releases of the year. The 2011 Australian film "Sleeping Beauty", directed by Julia Leigh, uses the central premise of "House of the Sleeping Beauties" as part of its main plotline, but reverses the viewpoint. The film contains a scene in which a university lecturer is presenting on a game of Go, a reference to Kawabata's 1951 novel "The Master of Go". The literary sources for the film "Sleeping Beauty" (2011) were acknowledged and discussed in the book "Sleeping Beauty" presented to the press at the Cannes Film Festival 2011 by Screen Australia and subsequently in many interviews. These sources included