Director Jon Turteltaub has a smooth style suited to classic farce and knows just how to pace the material to accentuate the positive.
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:10
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.6/10
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... 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
Reviews for While You Were Sleeping
This is a formula film, but it has the kind of good cheer and fine tuning that occasionally give slickness a good name.
Bullock is a genuinely engaging performer, which at least gives the treacle some minty freshness.
A sappy, negligible, thoroughly innocuous romantic comedy vehicle for Sandra Bullock.
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