Director Joe Ruben on Julia Roberts, Dastardly Extras and Surviving the

...the Pom-Pom Girls

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In the late eighties, director Joe Ruben had built up some buzz with low budget movies that were a little better than people expected them to be. Movies like Dreamscape, The Stepfather and True Believer. Critics wondered what he might be capable of with more resources at his disposal.

In 1991, Ruben got that chance when he directed America’s newest sweetheart, Julia Roberts, in the thriller, Sleeping With the Enemy. Since then, Ruben moved on to movies like The Good Son and Money Train before going into semi-retirement. But at the time of this interview from the February 1991 issue of Movieline, there was reason to believe that Ruben might develop into an A-list director.