Sleeping with the Enemy Sleeping with the Enemy Sleeping with the Enemy is a 1991 American romantic psychological thriller film directed by Joseph Ruben and starring Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin and Kevin Anderson. The film is based on Nancy Price's 1987 novel of the same name. Roberts plays a woman who escapes from her abusive husband, from Cape Cod to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she captures the attention of a kindly college drama teacher. "Sleeping with the Enemy" was released theatrically on February 8, 1991. The film upon its release received negative reviews from the critics but was a box office success grossing $175
Sleeping Beauty (2011 film) director Julia Leigh, primarily a novelist, said in an interview with "Filmmaker Magazine" that she initially wrote the film without the intention of directing it. In writing the script, Leigh drew from several literary inspirations, including Yasunari Kawabata's "House of the Sleeping Beauties" and "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, as well as the eponymous fairytales by Charles Perrault and The Brothers Grimm, and the biblical story of an old King Solomon who had young virgins brought to him from all over his realm to sleep alongside him. She also noted the phenomenon of images of sleeping