Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) Poster

Parents Guide

Add to guide
Showing all 19 items

Certification

Edit
MPAA Rated R for wife abuse terror and a sex scene
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A man and a woman kiss fiercely, and begin to have sex. As he puts her on the kitchen table, he starts to thrust hard, although both are clothed.
  • One conversation about sex.
  • A man and a woman kiss passionately.
  • A sex scene between a married couple takes place. The man's movements are shown; the wife is clearly unhappy but pretends to enjoy it. The man then gets up and we see his bare butt briefly (no other explicit nudity).

Violence & Gore

  • A man steps on a glass shard with bare feet and it gets lodged in his foot. There is a close up shot of him pulling it out.
  • A man reaches into a small pouch and his finger is cut by an unknown item. A drop of blood falls from the injury into a toilet.
  • Some scenes involve domestic violence: a man smacks his wife, knocking her to the floor and kicks her, yelling, while she cries. She is shown more than once to have bruises on her body.
  • The husband is shown to be very controlling, and has his wife acting as if she is a servant towards him.
  • Other scenes are threatening; a man shows up in another man's car with a gun to his head, then knocks him out after questioning him.
  • Near the end two men fight and one's knocked out.

Profanity

  • Religious swearing several times.
  • About six other profanities including sh*t.
  • 2 "f" words are uttered, one in a sexual nature.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • None other than a man and woman attend a party where some wine and fine alcoholic beverages are shown.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The ending is frightening.
  • There are some scenes showing domestic violence.
  • A woman, believed to be dead, is stalked/terrorized by her estranged husband.
  • Several scenes show hinted terror and suspense, such as a woman alone fearing a bad man is in the house with her.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman shoots a man repeatedly to protect herself. He falls to the floor while she cries, then grabs her briefly by the hair and aims a gun at her. The gun clicks, empty, and he falls back dead.

See also

Taglines | Plot Summary | Synopsis | Plot Keywords


Recently Viewed