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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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Fortunately, it's smart enough not to outstay its welcome.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment 1 Comment
12/10/08
Channel 4 Film

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
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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A bright, charming romance.

Full Review Source: Scott Renshaw's Screening Room | comment 1 Comment
01/01/00
Scott Renshaw
Scott Renshaw
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A gem of a movie.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment 1 Comment
01/01/00
Steve Rhodes
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02/13/01
USA Today

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

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out

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
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A modern romantic comedy that actually works.

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11/28/03
Alex Sandell
Alex Sandell
Juicy Cerebellum

A few lines, owing to great delivery by terrific actors, raise this a few notches on the comedy scale.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
01/01/00
Barbara Shulgasser
Barbara Shulgasser
San Francisco Examiner

Director Jon Turteltaub's movie is just plain bad.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
01/01/00
Bruce Kirkland
Bruce Kirkland
Jam! Movies

No review available.

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08/22/03
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

As this season's gentle, feel-good romantic amusement, it works quite well.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
01/01/00
Chris Hicks
Chris Hicks
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Predictable at best and just plain dull most of the time.

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01/01/00
Christopher Null
Christopher Null
Filmcritic.com

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

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
02/14/08
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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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07/15/05
Emanuel Levy
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EmanuelLevy.Com

A sappy, negligible, thoroughly innocuous romantic comedy vehicle for Sandra Bullock.

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Hal Hinson
Hal Hinson
Washington Post
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A perfect example of this unoriginal-but-enjoyable type of film making.

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James Berardinelli
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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
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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This is the first romantic comedy I've seen in a long time that, by the third act, doesn't forget about being funny.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Combustible Celluloid
 
 
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