I don't like suspenseful movies, but I couldn't stop watching this domestic violence rerun. The brief review that follows inadequately represents what the movie is really about, but I offer it anyway:
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband. Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
(www.imdb.com).
Director:
Writers:
Nancy Price (novel), Ronald Bass (screenplay)
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Domestic violence is defined as "a pattern of abusive behavior in which someone uses physical, sexual, psychological or other types of harm against a current or former partner, an immediate family member or another relative." Signs of domestic violence are usually concealed, and hospitals and schools often miss signs of child abuse as a form of domestic violence. Categories of domestic violence include stalking, threats or other behaviors meant to manipulate, intimidate or control someone else.
In big, bustling cities where people tend to mind their own business and in quiet little towns where nobody minds their own business, domestic violence happens and goes unreported. Nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States alone.
Domestic violence is not only about women. Many such victims are men. Domestic violence occurs despite race and ethnicity, and in same sex relationships as in heterosexual relationships.
Domestic violence was once dismissed as "a domestic affair" by those in authority but due to its prevalence in society, it is beginning to get the attention it deserves.
Domestic violence changes your perspective on life.
www.domesticviolencehotline/help
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