If you loved The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, try Sleeping with the Enemy

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

1992 · dir. Curtis Hanson

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Sleeping with the Enemy

1991 · dir. Joseph Ruben

What they share

Theyboth carry the paranoid mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

paranoid

What Sleeping with the Enemy is

Darkness on a summer lake, a shattered mirror, silence. A suffocating marriage, a desperate escape plan. Joseph Ruben directs a tense game of cat and mouse.

If you loved The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, try Sleeping with the Enemy

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Sleeping with the Enemy

What they share

What Sleeping with the Enemy is

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