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SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY. A suave beast (Patrick Bergin) tracks down his abused wife (Julia Roberts) after she has faked her death and escaped his clutches. A good idea for a feminist thriller soon degenerates, under Joseph Ruben's direction, into a wheezy lady-in-distress melodrama. Paging Barbara Stanwyck...
Meanwhile, Julia disguises herself as a servant boy and visits Proteus. When she discovers that Proteus is pursuing Silvia, she intervenes, telling Silvia that he has another lover in Verona. Silvia and Valentine are reunited, as are Proteus and Julia. The Two Gentlemen of Verona concludes with a standard, though convoluted, happy ending...
...plot is predictable: Valentine travels to work for the Duke in Milan, leaving his friend Proteus, who is in love with Julia (Dawn Li), in Verona. In Milan, Valentine falls in love with the Duke's daughter Silvia (Joanna Weiss), who is engaged to the pompous Sir Thurio (Robert Ashley). Proteus is sent to Milan by his father, and he too becomes enamored of Silvia and manages to thwart Valentine's plan to marry...
...does an excellent directing job, fully utilizing the small Quincy Cage space where the action unfolds. His use of the sides and back of the theater help clarify the confusions in the plot. For example, those scenes in which Julia watches the unsuspecting Proteus become more interesting, as well as more credible, because she is hidden from...
Weiss effectively plays both Madam Lucetta and Silvia. Her Madam Lucetta, Julia's servant, is nosy but avoids caricature. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of Scully or of Ashley. Over-acting reduces both of their characters to flat stereotypes that quickly become tiresome...