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While You Were Sleeping

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While You Were Sleeping (1995)

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Reviews Counted: 40

Fresh: 34

Rotten:6

Average Rating: 6.5/10

Consensus: While You Were Sleeping is built wholly from familiar ingredients, but assembled with such skill -- and with such a charming performance from Sandra Bullock -- that it gives formula a good name.

Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Lucy Moderatz, a charming but shy token seller, spends her evenings home alone with her cat and her holidays working for the Chicago Transit Authority -- she has neither family nor boyfriend to... Lucy Moderatz, a charming but shy token seller, spends her evenings home alone with her cat and her holidays working for the Chicago Transit Authority -- she has neither family nor boyfriend to keep her company. But she does have a secret crush: sexy Peter Callaghan, a regular customer who has never even given her a second glance. One day, Peter is mugged on the subway platform and falls in front of an oncoming train. The courageous Lucy jumps down onto the tracks and pushes him to safety, but the ordeal leaves Peter in a deep coma. Lucy remains at his side in the hospital until his family arrives -- at which point a confused nurse, who misunderstood one of Lucy's comments, informs the Callaghans that Lucy is Peter's fiancee. And Lucy just can't manage to set them straight. But now she's beginning to fall in love with Peter's handsome and kind brother, Jack, and has one big problem: what will happen when Peter wakes up? [More]

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle

Starring: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Glynis Johns, Micole Mercurio

Director: Jon Turteltaub

Director: Jon Turteltaub

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The film's casual warmth may make you tolerate some of the shortcomings -- especially since Bullock seems to be having such a fine time with her first starring role.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment 1 Comment
02/09/09
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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A mild romantic comedy rooted in class anxiety, but it's nice to see perennial loser-in-love Pullman get some. Respect, that is.

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12/10/08
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Director Jon Turteltaub has a smooth style suited to classic farce and knows just how to pace the material to accentuate the positive.

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12/10/08
Leonard Klady
Variety
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Fortunately, it's smart enough not to outstay its welcome.

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12/10/08
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It's cutesy enough to serve as a pleasant time-waster for those hungering for blue-collar romance in Chi town.

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02/14/08
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

This is the first romantic comedy I've seen in a long time that, by the third act, doesn't forget about being funny.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

As cute and cuddly a bedtime story as anyone could wish for.

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01/26/06
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No review available.

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08/07/05
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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07/15/05
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06/09/05
Nell Minow
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Surprisingly half-decent high-concept chick-flick material.

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04/03/05
Scott Weinberg
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02/01/05
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Classic Sandra Bullock romantic comedy.

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12/03/04
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

A welcome ray of sunshine.

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01/11/04
Michael Dequina
Mr. Brown's Movies

A modern romantic comedy that actually works.

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11/28/03
Alex Sandell
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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Bullock, with her attractive but unglamorous image, gives humanity and a little bit of realism to an otherwise fairytale plot.

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05/30/03
Dragan Antulov
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This is a formula film, but it has the kind of good cheer and fine tuning that occasionally give slickness a good name.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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Turteltaub wisely plays his strength by giving us extended close-ups of Bullock, who is at once canny and vulnerable, rising above this workmanlike comedy.

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05/20/03
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly

A cute, throwaway romantic comedy.

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