Sleeping with Danger

Grace Tanner (Elisabeth Röhm) falls for her alternative medicine doctor Paul Carter (Antonio Cupo). It develops into a full romance, but underlying issues balloon into a run for her life.

This is a Lifetime movie. At least, they bought the distribution. It's their standard woman-in-danger plot. It's all very standard and very second-rate. I like Röhm over the years but she does come off a little cool. The biggest issue is the male lead. I don't know much about him. He seems to be a veteran TV actor. I probably seen him before, but I wouldn't know. In addition, the character is too bland. I get the idea of transformation from nice guy to possessive creep. They just really need a good meet-cute. It can't be as boring this one. I don't care that this copies every other one of these movies. I just want it to be good.

Finally I can give a positive favorable review for a Lifetime movie. Even though the subject matter was upsetting, I thoroughly enjoyed this flick and didn't feel like I was watching a middle school play with a script written by drunken morons. Another plus: no Vivica Fox in sight, much less coyly mewing "He was the WRONG fiance..." at the very end.

This was carried out entirely by intelligent, talented, non-self absorbed adults, which was so refreshing and unfortunately rare on LMN. The direction was smooth and unfaltering, as the story moved along at a good pace - increasingly building up the tension and suspense that would inevitably culminate in a shockingly brutal ending.

I wouldn't have missed this movie for anything, since I've been an avid reader of true crime books for decades and Ann Rule was one of the best true crime authors of all time. I'm just relieved that LMN did her justice and didn't embarrass her longtime fans, friends, and family - and her legacy.

I gave it 8 out of 10 mainly because it was never explained how Grace obtained Neva's address from just a Christmas card, that she grabbed from the table at the clinic. There was no envelope with the card, and the address wouldn't have been on the card, unless Neva had written it on the back but that's not usually done.

This movie is a perfect example of the statement I've made in several of my reviews here that I know that LMN is capable of putting out excellent movies every now and then - so why are so many of their flicks such all-around wastes of space and time?

**NOTE: the main female lead character played by Elisabeth Rohm is named Grace Tanner, but here on imdb in the cast list, it's Kate Jewell. Apparently they changed it at the last minute.

Grade: B+

Elisabeth Rohm stars as Grace, an stewardess who meets Paul, an alternative therapy doctor, who woos and wants to marry her. I think they may have her character's name later for whatever reason. But the trouble is with Paul who is a violent, controlling psycho who mentally and physically abuses Grace and keeps her isolated. Will Grace ever escape. You will have to tune in to find out! Highly recommend this movie!

She says, Sleeping with the Enemy wants it's royalties.

OMG, this movie brought back a lot issues even for me.