Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry (
Judge Reinhold) in bed with her sister June (
Elizabeth Perkins), a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the authorities--including her police-officer husband Floyd (
Jeffrey Jones). Then she decides to reveal Enid's demise, albeit rearranging the damning evidence to make the whole thing look like the accident it really was. Widely praised when it was sneak-previewed for critics, the darkly hilarious Enid is Sleeping was timorously re-edited by its distributor for its general release. Lovingly and laboriously, star
Elizabeth Perkins and director Maurice Phillips reassembled the film into its original form. That version currently exists on videotape under the title
Over Her Dead Body. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide