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
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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 |
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3/4 |
A mild romantic comedy rooted in class anxiety, but it's nice to see perennial loser-in-love Pullman get some. Respect, that is. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Fortunately, it's smart enough not to outstay its welcome. Full Review |
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 C+ |
It's cutesy enough to serve as a pleasant time-waster for those hungering for blue-collar romance in Chi town. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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 |
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As cute and cuddly a bedtime story as anyone could wish for. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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3/5 |
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3/5 |
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3/5 |
Surprisingly half-decent high-concept chick-flick material.
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2/5 |
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4/5 |
Classic Sandra Bullock romantic comedy.
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4/4 |
A welcome ray of sunshine. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A modern romantic comedy that actually works.
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3/5 |
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5/10 |
Bullock, with her attractive but unglamorous image, gives humanity and a little bit of realism to an otherwise fairytale plot. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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3/5 |
A cute, throwaway romantic comedy.
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