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While You Were Sleeping (1995)

Sandra Bullock , Bill Pullman , Jon Turteltaub  |  PG |  DVD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (336 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Glynis Johns
  • Directors: Jon Turteltaub
  • Writers: Daniel G. Sullivan & Fredric LeBow
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Subtitles: Spanish
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Studio: Hollywood Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: February 4, 1998
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (336 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6304765266
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,705 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "While You Were Sleeping" on IMDb

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If you don't mind a heavy dose of schmaltz and sentiment, this romantic comedy has a gentle way of seducing you with its charms. While You Were Sleeping was the first starring role for Sandra Bullock after her blockbuster success in Speed. In a role that nicely emphasizes her easygoing appeal, Bullock is the reason the movie works at all. She plays Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, a Chicago Transit tollbooth clerk who's hopelessly smitten with a daily commuter, Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher). She saves the object of her affection from certain death after he's mugged and falls onto the train tracks. While Peter is in a coma, she lets his family believe that she is his fiancée, and surprisingly finds herself drawn to his brother (Bill Pullman), for whom the attraction is definitely mutual. How Lucy gets out of this amorous predicament is what makes this pleasant movie less predictable than its familiar ingredients would initially indicate. It's feel-good fluff, with characters and performances that keep you smiling through the drippy plot mechanics. --Jeff Shannon

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You'll fall in love with WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, the hit romantic comedy that woke everyone up to adorable Sandra Bullock (SPEED, A TIME TO KILL). As Lucy, a lonely subway worker, she becomes smitten with a handsome stranger (Peter Gallagher -- MALICE). But when she saves his life after he's been mugged and fallen into a coma, his hilariously offbeat family mistakes her for his fiancee! Soon, the mix-ups escalate as Lucy fabricates a life between herself and a man she's never met! And when Lucy falls for his charming brother (Bill Pullman -- INDEPENDENCE DAY) the situation really gets uproarious as she's forced to make a choice between the two!

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I love this movie and can watch it over and over again. Jess McDonald  |  114 reviewers made a similar statement
This is a good funny and romantic movie which is a love story. christmas lover  |  79 reviewers made a similar statement
While with this family Lucy falls head over heels in love with Peter's brother, Jack. TREND700  |  62 reviewers made a similar statement
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112 of 117 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Chick Flick that Guys can like too! August 31, 2004
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For her work after "Speed" my brother began referring to Sandra Bullock as "Queen of the Chick Flicks", and I won't disagree, although some of her films work much better for members of both sexes than others. "While You Were Sleeping" is an entertaining film for Guys and Dolls, and it works in repeated viewings.

Sandra portrays Lucy Moderatz, who takes tolls on the L train in Chicago and from afar has an obsessive crush on the handsome, well-dressed Peter Callaghan, played by Peter Gallagher. The audience must willingly accept that someone as likable and attractive as Sandra Bullock is stuck in a dead-end job where she is lonely and works all the holidays because, after all, she doesn't have anyone to share them with. The movie doesn't give you much time to dwell on this because before you know it, Peter is getting mugged and knocked off Lucy's train station platform where he falls unconscious onto the path of a rapidly approaching train. Not surprisingly, Lucy jumps down and pulls the man of her dreams to safety. Lucy then follows the comatose Peter to the hospital where a nurse overhears Lucy in one of her daydreams say "this is the man I'm going to marry" - which naturally leads the nurse to think that Lucy and Peter are engaged when, in fact, the only words that have passed between them are when Peter paused to say "Merry Christmas" as he dropped his token into Lucy's toll booth.

Peter's wonderful family arrives and the misunderstanding of Lucy as Peter's fiancee is perpetuated. Lucy could have cleared up the whole misunderstanding from the first moments but:
1. Peter's family is wonderful and Lucy is lonely.
2. Peter's grandmother has a "heart condition" and Lucy fears that telling the truth may send Grandma over the edge. (The screenwriters were clearly searching for a reason for Lucy to not just fess up....)
3. Since Lucy has been fantasizing about Peter for awhile it's not that difficult for her to pretend to be his fiancee.

I've heard Roger Ebert say it's not as important *what* a movie is about as *how* the movie is about that thing.

This movie would be doomed to failure if it were only about some pathetic toll-taker who pretends to be engaged to her dream-boat to his family while he's in a coma. But Lucy isn't pathetic - she's as likable and attractive as, well, Sandra Bullock, and Peter's family is full of charming, likable folks. Peter, as things would have it, isn't as charming as Lucy dreamt. Although he used to be in the family business of antique furniture, he went to law school and now barely keeps in touch with his family. He has a bitchy girlfriend who is in Europe leaving calls on his answering machine while he is in a coma - one of the calls tells him "yes, I'll marry you".

Again - it's not difficult to guess where much of this is going. Bill Pullman plays Peter's charming, easy-going brother, Jack, who has stayed close to the family, running Dad's business. (There is an extremely well-done low-key scene close to the end where Jack tells Dad, played by Peter Boyle, that he wants to MAKE furniture instead of just dealing it - which will mean getting out of the family business. The scene has both a ring of authenticity, not yielding to any histrionic cliches, and at the same time maintaining the warm feelings that you've built up for both of these characters by this portion of the movie. These kinds of scenes *make* this movie.)

Jack Warden gets special kudos from me as Peter's godfather, Saul, who loves his godson, but also comes to love Lucy as well. Michael Rispoli steals a few scenes as "Joe, Jr." the son of Lucy's landlord. In the early scenes Joe comes across as a shorter, heavier Andrew Dice Clay wannabe. But by the end even Joe has become someone deserving our admiration. This is the kind of movie where you want nice things to happen to the characters - and the movie goes about it's business in a very satisfying way.
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Forget all the rest, "While You Were Sleeping" is the best romantic comedy to come out of Hollywood in the past decade. Every moment of this sweetly endearing story will leave you with a warm and tingly feeling all over that won't wear off until long after the movie ends. In her first starring vehicle, an extremely appealing Sandra Bullock plays lonely subway worker Lucy and brings a warmth, freshness, and vulnerability to this character that everyone can identify with. After all, we've all had unrequited crushes on someone else at one point in our lives, but when Lucy saves the life of her "dream man" Peter, a hilarious comedy of errors ensues at the hospital when she is mistaken for his fiancee and passed off to his family as such. In the beginning, Lucy reluctantly plays along with the ruse, but as she falls in love with Peter's family and especially his brother Jack, she finds it very difficult to tell them the truth - that she is not engaged to Peter, indeed she has never even spoken to him! Bullock and Pullman shine as the two romantic leads who are loath to admit how attracted they are to each other, and the marvellous supporting cast add many laughs to this gem of a movie. This is a very entertaining way to spend over ninety minutes. You would have to be very hard to please if you didn't enjoy this movie about love at second sight. Film makers should shoot more stories like this!
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35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars While You Were Sleeping March 27, 2008
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Lucy Moderatz lives a comfortable existence. Her days consist of working at the L train collecting tolls, hanging out with friends occasionally, and living with her pet cat. She develops a crush on Peter Callaghan who frequents her toll both daily. When he is attacked while waiting on the train, Lucy risks her own life to save his. While waiting at the hospital to hear of his condition, she makes the statement that lying in there is the man she was going to marry. A nurse overhears Lucy and assumes that she is Peter's fiancée when in fact it was just Lucy's overactive imagination. She intends to clear it up until his family barges in. Lucy doesn't want to upset the family any more than they already are, so she keeps the truth to herself for the moment. She is included in the family, and really made to feel a part of them, so then she can't bring herself to tell them the truth at all. Lucy, who has never really felt a connection to another man, starts to fall for Peter's brother Jack while everyone waits for Peter to emerge from his coma. When Peter does finally wake, all hell breaks loose!

Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman have incredible chemistry and on screen rapport as the romantic leads. The supporting cast could not have been chosen any better, and a personal favorite of mine - Peter Boyle was priceless! I just love this movie, and will keep it on hand to see time and time again.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great movie!!
Hey Luc, is that guy botherin you? If he is you let me know, I know karate!

Peter, the fact is you're a putz.
Published 11 days ago by Ed T.
5.0 out of 5 stars Had to have it
Again this was a vhs found it in dvd so again I had to order it so I could enjoy it
Published 11 days ago by BAXTER
5.0 out of 5 stars great movie
one of my all time favorite movies so i added it to my small collection to watch over and over
Published 22 days ago by candy
5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite Movie
Only had this movie on VHS at home and love it! Needed to get it on DVD and it was cheap...LOVE this movie!
Published 23 days ago by NepaGirl10
5.0 out of 5 stars Old favorite.
Another old favorite that has come out on dvd. Sandra Bullock is great in this movie as always and I love Bill Pullman in this role.
Published 27 days ago by Trena Vinyard
4.0 out of 5 stars Great deal
I wonder if my mom will ever like this movie. All she does is watch novelas all day. I thought this movie was o.k. Not really into romatic comedies. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Herman Feliz
5.0 out of 5 stars Great light hearted movie.
This was one of Sandra Bullock's best. The sadness which engulfed her life, always alone with only her cat and then meeting the "man of her dreams", makes this a kind of... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Bobbie J
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic.
I was excited to own this movie and even more excited when it was in good shape and worked. Good buy.
Published 1 month ago by sarah collins
4.0 out of 5 stars previous viewing
it had been yrs since I had seen this and was interesting to see again and share with others who had view before also
Published 1 month ago by Linda
5.0 out of 5 stars why I like it
It is a good movie that I watch many more times. It always keeps me laughing.so I enjoy it over and over
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