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Dear ABC Family,

Sleeping With the Enemy is not some cheery romantic comedy, as you portray it in your previews. It is about a woman who fakes her own death to escape an abusive husband, starts a new life and finds a new love, only to have her husband track down down stalk them, and eventually attack them. I pity the people who tune in to your station who are not familiar with the movie and expect a cute romantic comedy, which your previews indicate it is.

Thank You,

Me

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How. HOW can you get cute romantic comedy from that? EVEN THE TITLE says "this movie is not a happy movie".

WTF.

This feels like it should've been on Lifetime instead of ABC Family. Incidentally, I love when ABC Family airs these movies that are so bad, they're great (see: Here on Earth, any film starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, etc).

Are they seriously marketing it like that? That movie creeped the HELL out of me when I was a kid.

Perhaps it will fly with the same people who think "Every Breath You Take" is a devotedly romantic love song, instead of the manifesto of a creepily obsessed stalker?

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww.

(Why have I been saying that a lot tonight?)

I actually saw ABC's commercial last night. I've never heard of the movie & if it hadn't been for this post, I would have thought it looked like a cute, lighthearted, romantic flick! Talk about misleading!

Sleeping with the Enemy was one of the first movies I saw when I was a kid. ^_^ I'm curious to see this trailer . . hopefully it's not as farfetch as The Shining and Mary Poppins trailers on Youtube. ;) At the same time, I'm always supportive of the element of surprise because too often trailers give away everything, y'know? When I was younger, I always imagined myself making a movie that I'd advertise as a comedy for a few weeks, then a horror, then a drama and just confused people so much that they'd have to check it out. XD

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