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.
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02/09/09
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... [More]
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle
Director: Jon Turteltaub
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Reviews for While You Were Sleeping
Top CriticA mild romantic comedy rooted in class anxiety, but it's nice to see perennial loser-in-love Pullman get some. Respect, that is.
12/10/08
Top CriticDirector Jon Turteltaub has a smooth style suited to classic farce and knows just how to pace the material to accentuate the positive.
12/10/08
Top CriticFortunately, it's smart enough not to outstay its welcome.
12/10/08
Top CriticIt's cutesy enough to serve as a pleasant time-waster for those hungering for blue-collar romance in Chi town.
02/14/08
This is the first romantic comedy I've seen in a long time that, by the third act, doesn't forget about being funny.
05/26/06
As cute and cuddly a bedtime story as anyone could wish for.
01/26/06
Top CriticNo review available.
08/07/05
No review available.
07/15/05
No review available.
06/09/05
Surprisingly half-decent high-concept chick-flick material.
04/03/05
No review available.
02/01/05
Classic Sandra Bullock romantic comedy.
12/03/04
A welcome ray of sunshine.
01/11/04
A modern romantic comedy that actually works.
11/28/03
No review available.
08/22/03
Bullock, with her attractive but unglamorous image, gives humanity and a little bit of realism to an otherwise fairytale plot.
05/30/03
This is a formula film, but it has the kind of good cheer and fine tuning that occasionally give slickness a good name.
05/20/03
Top CriticTurteltaub wisely plays his strength by giving us extended close-ups of Bullock, who is at once canny and vulnerable, rising above this workmanlike comedy.
05/20/03
A cute, throwaway romantic comedy.
12/30/02
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