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,
Sleeping with the Devil (film) Sleeping with the Devil (film) Sleeping with the Devil is a 1997 American television film directed by William A. Graham. The film is based upon the novel of the same name by Suzanne Finstad. Rebecca Dubrovich is a nurse, who was brutally raped years ago. Ever since, she has been skeptic about dating men, and instead focuses on her work, and her training for the Santa Barbara triathlon. Her life and outlook on love changes when she meets and falls in love with billionaire, Dick Strang, the owner of a large fitness chain. Rebecca opens up to Dick about her