Dating the enemy

Dating the Enemy

Contents

Plot [ edit ]

One Valentine's evening a group of single, dateless friends get together to play Trivial Pursuit. Brett (Guy Pearce ), a friend of the host from Melbourne, has just landed a job as presenter of a TV gossip show. He is brash and self-confident. Tash (Claudia Karvan ) is a science journalist for a national newspaper, studious, intense and self-conscious. They have nothing in common, so naturally they get it together.

A year later and Brett's career is going well, there is the possibility of a job in New York and popularity has gone to his head. Tash is still trying to write serious scientific articles for a paper more interested in gossip and sex and struggling to prevent her articles being buried on page 12. Their relationship is on the rocks. That night during a Valentine's boat trip on Sydney Harbour, an argument ensues and Brett decides he has had enough. Tash tells him: 'I wish you could be me, so you could see how I feel for once. I wish I could be you, so I could show you what an idiot you've become!'.

That night is a full moon and fate decides to lend a hand. They wake to find that each is in the other's body. A month of each pretending to be the other ensues and they have to learn what it's really like to be in the other person's shoes. Tash has to try to keep Brett's high-profile career on track. Brett is so bored by Tash's job, he ends up trying to make science sexy. Each learns to appreciate the other as only together can they make this enforced predicament work out.

Production [ edit ]

The film was co financed by French distributor Pandora Film.

Reception [ edit ]

One review described Dating the Enemy as: "A fast and funny look at relationships in the 90s, the smash-hit romantic comedy 'Dating the Enemy' brings a whole new meaning to the battle of the sexes." [ 1 ]

Soundtrack [ edit ]

Box Office [ edit ]

Dating The Enemy grossed $2,620,325 at the box office in Australia, [ 2 ] which is equivalent to $3,668,455 in 2009 AS dollars.

Sleeping with the Enemy

Contents

Plot [ edit ]

Laura Burney (Julia Roberts ) lives in a beautiful home by the beach on Cape Cod with her husband, Martin (Patrick Bergin ), a charming, handsome and wealthy investment counselor who is also possessive, abusive, and controlling. It becomes apparent that he has obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD). Laura tries to abide his rules, but suffers under the strain of doing so. One day, Martin believes Laura has been flirting with an attractive neighbor, and he physically assaults her in a jealous rage. The abuse has been ongoing, and started immediately after their wedding. In an effort to escape Martin, Laura plans and fakes her own death at sea in a storm while the couple are boating. Because Laura had deliberately led Martin to believe that she could not swim, he believed she had died once she was lost overboard. However, Laura was able to swim safely to shore, because she had recently taken swimming lessons at the YWCA. Laura secretly returns home, retrieves some clothing and cash she had hidden away in preparation, disguises herself, and leaves home after flushing her wedding ring down the toilet.

Laura moves to Cedar Falls, Iowa. In preparation, she has told Martin that her mother, Chloe Williams (Elizabeth Lawrence), died, and pretended to attend the funeral, but secretly she had moved her to a nursing home in Iowa. She rents a modest house and adopts the name Sara Waters. In Cedar Falls, she meets Ben Woodward (Kevin Anderson ), who teaches drama at University of Northern Iowa. A relationship develops, but suffers a setback when Ben discovers that her real name is not Sara. After a date, Laura is unable to be physically intimate with Ben, and the next day, she confesses that she is on the run from an abusive husband.

Meanwhile, Martin receives a chance phone call from a friend of Laura's from the YWCA and learns of Laura's swimming lessons. His suspicions aroused, Martin heads home and finds Laura's wedding ring in the toilet bowl where it failed to flush. From the Cape Cod nursing home, he learns that Laura's mother is alive, and has her traced to the nursing home in Iowa. He visits Laura's mother and tells her he is a police officer needing information about Laura. He learns from her that Laura is seeing a college drama teacher in Cedar Falls.

Martin finds Laura and Ben at a local fair, then follows her home. After leaving idiosyncratic clues of his presence, around the house for Laura to find, Martin confronts Laura. Ben appears at the front door and Martin, brandishing a gun, threatens to kill Ben if she doesn't make him leave. Laura talks to Ben and he appears to leave, but then he breaks down the door and struggles with Martin, who knocks him unconscious. As Martin points the gun at Ben, Laura distracts Martin then attacks him. He drops the gun and Laura manages to take control of it; she fires at Martin but misses.

Laura holds Martin at gunpoint while she calls the police. She then tells the police that she just killed an intruder, hangs up the phone and shoots Martin three times.

When Martin falls to the ground, she drops the pistol and collapses, sobbing. Martin, not yet dead, picks up the gun and attempts to shoot her, but the gun only clicks empty and he dies. Ben is revived by Laura. They embrace as Martin's dead body lies on the ground with Laura's wedding ring inches from his hand.

Cast [ edit ]

Julia Roberts as Laura Williams Burney/Sara Waters

Patrick Bergin as Martin Burney

Kevin Anderson as Ben Woodward [ 4 ]

Elizabeth Lawrence as Chloe Williams

Kyle Secor as Fleishman

Claudette Nevins as Dr. Rissner

Release [ edit ]

Critical reception [ edit ]

Sleeping with the Enemy received negative reviews; the film currently holds a 22% 'Rotten' rating on Rotten Tomatoes. [ 5 ]

Famed critic Roger Ebert gave the film 1.5 stars upon its release, calling it "a slasher movie in disguise, an up-market version of the old exploitation formula where the victim can run, but she can't hide." [ 6 ]

Box office [ edit ]

The film's opening ended Home Alone ' s 11-week #1 run at the box office. [ 7 ] By the end of its run, the film had grossed $101,599,005 in the domestic box office; with an international total of $73,400,000, the film's worldwide gross was $174,999,005; based on a $19 million budget, the film was a box office success. [ 8 ]

Soundtrack [ edit ]

The original music for the film was composed and conducted by Jerry Goldsmith. Columbia Records released an album concurrently with the film containing just over 38 minutes of score plus the Van Morrison song "Brown Eyed Girl ." In 2011 La-La Land Records issued a limited edition album of 3500 copies expanding Goldsmith's score (but omitting the song).

La-La Land track listing (tracks in bold also on the Columbia album):

Morning On The Beach (2:32)

No Problem (:52)

Fears (2:55)

Roses/You Want Something/Happy Days (2:29)

The Storm (3:16)

Broken Window (1:02)

The Funeral (3:22)

A Brave Girl (3:48)

Spring Cleaning (2:28)

Broken Light (1:05)

The Ring (2:04)

Sarah Waters (1:01)

It Never Started (1:21)

Home Alone (:51)

What Did He Do? (2:55)

The Disguise (:47)

Thanks Mom (4:25)

Don't Worry/Wrong Man/School's Out (1:25)

The Towels (1:10)

The Watcher/He Was Here (2:01)

The Carnival (2:51)

Remember This (7:58)

You Want Something (Alternate Mix) (1:07)

The Carnival (Alternate Mix) (1:59)

Home media [ edit ]

The film reached #1 in the rental charts. [ 9 ]

Dating the Enemy

Introduction

This section of ComedyDownUnder. com is actually created for a university assignment. Do not expect me to make a section like this on every Australian comedy film.

Australian and Worldwide Release

In Australian cinemas, it was released September 19, 1996.

When it was released on video, it originally was only available to rent from Video Ezy. This exclusiveness later changed, though, and is now available to buy from major department stores and available to rent from most video stores.

There is currently no DVD available in Australia and with all of my research, I have not been able to find whether or not Dating the Enemy is planned to be released in that format.

As for a worldwide release, I was unable to find release dates for other countries other than New Zealand and Italy. According to IMDb. com, these dates were 23 January 1997 for New Zealand and 17 August 1999 for Italy (television premiere rather than cinema release).

As far as I can tell without being able to read German, Dating the Enemy has been released in Germany on DVD. It is available for purchase from Amazon. de here .

And this is where you learn to take note of the Amazon. com section on IMDb. com. According to Dating the Enemy 's main page there, the film is not available in the UK or USA on VHS or DVD, but is available in both formats in Germany.

Box Office

Dating the Enemy made a total of $2,506,922 at the box office. My source does not mention if this is Australia only or worldwide, but after comparing the box office details for Priscilla: Queen of the Desert from that source and IMDb. com (despite the latter not having the gross amount for Australia), I would have to say that the $2,506,922 is how much Dating the Enemy made at Australian cinemas only.

I'll assume it's Australian only as The Dish (Sitch, 2000) made more than that in the first weekend it opened in Australia.

Bibliographical Details of Reviews

"A 90s sex change." Sun Herald (21/9/1996)

Schieb, Richard. "Dating the Enemy." (1997)

enemy

Fig. consistently causing oneself to fail; more harmful to oneself than other people are. (*Typically: be

; become

.) Ellen: My boss is my enemy. She never says anything good about me. Jane: Ellen, you're your own worst enemy. If you did your job responsibly, your boss would be nicer.

One man's fight is another man's date.

"We conducted our courtship on rooftops and fire escapes. A strange flirtation, a hide and seek, a game of cat and mouse. "

When the hero of the show and one of the antagonists have a romantic tone right out in the open, as opposed to Foe Romance Subtext. This adds a degree of tension to the relationship, and as long as you make sure the antagonist is less of a "villain". we're allowed to root for them.

Compare Go Karting with Bowser (when the relationship is platonic rather than romantic or sexual), Loves My Alter Ego (for similar relationships between heroes and bystanders), and Defecting for Love (which happens when the Catwoman decides to go straight after all). Easily overlaps with Villainesses Want Heroes. May lead to The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life if the pairing is ultimately incompatible or too unstable. The one-sided version of this may be a Villainous Crush. See Foe Romance Subtext for the less explicit version of this, and Fatal Attraction when it's more dangerous. Compare Friendly Enemies .

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