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Sleeping With the Enemy [Blu-ray]
(Joseph Ruben, 1991)
Review by Gary Tooze
Production: Theatrical: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Video: 20th Century Fox
Disc: Region: FREE! (as verified by the Momitsu region FREE Blu-ray player) Runtime: 1:37:38.310 Disc Size: 32,659,224,361 bytes Feature Size: 31,721,005,056 bytes Video Bitrate: 30.29 Mbps Chapters: 16 Case: Standard Blu-ray case Release date: June 28th, 2011
Video: Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 Resolution: 1080p / 23.976 fps Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio English 3330 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3330 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit) DTS Audio French 768 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit DTS Audio German 768 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit DTS Audio Italian 768 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit DTS Audio Japanese 768 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit DTS Audio Russian 768 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit DTS Audio Spanish 768 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 768 kbps / 24-bit Dolby Digital Audio Portuguese 448 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 448 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps Dolby Digital Audio English 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / Dolby Surround Dolby Digital Audio Czech 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps Dolby Digital Audio Hungarian 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / Dolby Surround Dolby Digital Audio Thai 224 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 224 kbps / Dolby Surround Dolby Digital Audio Chinese 192 kbps 1.0 / 48 kHz / 192 kbps
Subtitles: English (SDH), Chinese (traditional and simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, none
Extras: • Featurette (4:57- 1:33 in 480i)• Trailer (1:51 in 480i)
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Description: Hot off her success in Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts starred in this thriller about a battered wife stalked by her abusive... husband. Roberts plays Laura Burney, the wife of a rich investment counselor, Martin (Patrick Bergin). Martin appreciates his wife as a trophy, but at home he abuses her for not keeping the house as clean as he would like it. The verbal abuse descends into physical violence --so much so that Laura decides to disappear rather than live a life under Martin as a brutalized slave. Laura fakes her own death by drowning, and relocates to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she changes her name to Sara Waters. She starts a relationship with her friendly Iowa neighbor Ben Woodward (Kevin Anderson), but her happiness is short-lived. Martin has discovered that Laura has staged her drowning and is coming to Iowa to reclaim his possession. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide
The Film:
Julia Roberts' first starring role since
Pretty Woman couldn't be more
of a contrast, but there's a crucial link between the two. Sleeping With
the Enemy (R) asks the question: What happens when a beautiful young
woman finds and marries her Prince Charming — and he turns out to be a
psychotic monster? The movie, a desperate-to-be-Hitchcockian thriller,
casts Roberts as Laura Burney, whose husband, the suave and presentable
Martin (Patrick Bergin), is actually a vicious, crazy, wife-beating
slug. Excerpt from Entertainment Weekly located HERE Image : NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc. Sleeping With the Enemy looks quite solid on Blu-ray from Fox. It's dual-layered with a high bitrate. Colors are fairly passive, skin tones a bit warm, but detail in close-ups is strong with a hint of depth at times. There is some even background grain but there is some noise in the darker scenes. This Blu-ray is consistent and clean without any notable flaws. I suspect it looks a lot like the film did 20-years ago.
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Audio :A flawless audio transfer with a DTS-HD Master 5.1 at a bountiful 3330 kbps supports Jerry Goldsmith's excellent score. The film itself has some effect subtleties without an abundance of aggression (some from the rocky sea and miniscule gun play at the end). It has some punchy bass and a nice higher end. There are a plethora of foreign language DUBs and subtitles options helping confirm that the disc is, indeed, region FREE.
Extras : The supplements are pretty bare-bones with only a standard featurette lasting less than 5-minutes in 480i and a theatrical trailer also in SD. Both were probably on the DVD.
BOTTOM LINE: Gary Tooze June 21st, 2011 |
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