Synopsis
Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden possessive dark side, a controlling and abusive alter ego that can turn trust, love and tranquility into terror. Terrified for her child's safety, Slim flees with her daughter. Relentless in his pursuit and enlisting the aid of lethal henchmen, Mitch continually stalks the prey that was once his family.
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Cast
- Jennifer LopezSlim Hiller
- Billy CampbellMitch Hiller
- Juliette LewisGinny
- Dan FuttermanJoe
- Fred WardJupiter
- Bill CobbsJim Toller
- Jeff KoberFBI Agent
- Bruce A. YoungInstructor
- Tessa AllenGracie Hiller
- Christopher MaherPhil
Recommendations
- 67
Austin Chronicle
The senseless violence of a Jean-Claude Van Dammer, no point to that, but this, this has purpose. This is an ass-kicking a girl can get into. So why do I feel like crying mea culpa? - 63
Chicago Tribune
One of those movies that starts like a house afire, catches you firmly in its narrative grip and then suddenly blows itself out, not really going out with a whimper but with a big, bad, ludicrous bang. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
There's only one place that a movie like this one can possibly be heading, and that's to a demagogic blowout of violent, femme-power payback. Enough gets there by way of far too many tedious detours. - 38
Chicago Sun-Times
It's surprising to see a director like Michael Apted and an actress like Jennifer Lopez associated with such tacky material. - 38
USA Today
Too much. The hackneyed story about an affluent damsel in distress who decides to fight her bully of a husband is simply too overdone. - 33
Portland Oregonian
Taking the film as a thriller, it's neither exciting nor scary, hampered by a middle that plays much too long. - 30
TV Guide Magazine
There's some fun to be had in seeing two of TV's resident sweetie pies, Campbell and ER's Noah Wyle, play unrepentant sons of bitches, but it's not enough. - 25
Miami Herald
It's a cannibalization of "Sleeping With the Enemy," a not-so-good Julia Roberts film, with a ridiculous female-empowerment subtext and a relentlessly stupid script that goes nowhere you can't predict before the opening credits roll.
