Director Jon Turteltaub's movie is just plain bad.
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01/01/00
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.
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
Reviews for While You Were Sleeping
Predictable at best and just plain dull most of the time.
01/01/00
It's cutesy enough to serve as a pleasant time-waster for those hungering for blue-collar romance in Chi town.
02/14/08
A sappy, negligible, thoroughly innocuous romantic comedy vehicle for Sandra Bullock.
01/01/00
Top CriticCringe-inducing moments abound.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
02/01/05
A 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 CriticFortunately, it's smart enough not to outstay its welcome.
12/10/08
Top CriticAs cute and cuddly a bedtime story as anyone could wish for.
01/26/06
Top CriticA modern romantic comedy that actually works.
11/28/03
A few lines, owing to great delivery by terrific actors, raise this a few notches on the comedy scale.
01/01/00
No review available.
08/22/03
As this season's gentle, feel-good romantic amusement, it works quite well.
01/01/00
Bullock, with her attractive but unglamorous image, gives humanity and a little bit of realism to an otherwise fairytale plot.
05/30/03
No review available.
07/15/05
A perfect example of this unoriginal-but-enjoyable type of film making.
01/01/00
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 CriticThis 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
No review available.
08/22/02
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