While You Were Sleeping

April. 21,1995      PG
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A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.

Sandra Bullock as  Lucy Eleanor Moderatz
Bill Pullman as  Jack Callaghan
Peter Gallagher as  Peter Callaghan
Peter Boyle as  Ox Callaghan
Jack Warden as  Saul
Glynis Johns as  Elsie
Micole Mercurio as  Midge Callaghan
Jason Bernard as  Jerry
Michael Rispoli as  Joe Jr.
Ally Walker as  Ashley Bacon

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Reviews

VeteranLight
1995/04/21

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

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Console
1995/04/22

best movie i've ever seen.

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Voxitype
1995/04/23

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Zlatica
1995/04/24

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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classicsoncall
1995/04/25

The irony in my summary line above is that Lucy (Sandra Bullock) was the one to find Peter (Peter Gallagher), and not the other way around, and then, as things progress, she winds up finding Peter's brother in a film filled with clever second guessing and imponderable coincidences. The cleverest was the 'one testicle' scenario. I wondered how the script was going to pull off that little conundrum and the screenwriters did it with style. So here's a romantic comedy that works without getting sappy. Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman affect a low key chemistry in the story that allows them to ride out the controversy of a phony engagement made all too real through a series of misjudgments. You really have to give the screenwriters credit here for making a believable story out of a set of unbelievable circumstances. The only thing that might not work here is the idea that someone who looks like Sandra Bullock wouldn't have eligible guys lined all the way up and down the block from her el-train cubicle to ask her out on a date. That aside, the story comes together in a charming way to make this not only an engaging chick flick, but an entertaining family film as well.

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sarahharris-01675
1995/04/26

The movie follows Lucy, an offensive stereotype of an autistic woman (which I can only assume was unintentional since I doubt the screenwriter has even met an autistic person at all), who on top of being too pitiful to live is just a horrendous person all around. She always uses his painful shyness as an excuse to just not clear up the misunderstandings (especially the one that kickstarts the plot) and end the movie right then and there. She even goes out of her way to stalk around in the apartment of the guy she's pretending to be engaged to, which only adds credence to my theory that she was written to be a terrible stereotype of an autistic woman and set disability representation back by three decades. All of the other characters (save for Peter, I suppose) are terrible as well. Jack develops feelings for his brother's supposed fiancee without even thinking about how much this might affect him, and the rest of the family pretty much just abandons Peter when they find out that he'd been engaged to a woman who was already married (to be fair, though, I don't think Peter could've known she was married at that time). Yes, this movie is so bad that I actually ended up feeling sorry for Peter, a character who's not supposed to be sympathetic in the slightest.I will give the movie this, though. Lucy and Peter don't get married at the end. Honestly, I think that's for the best since their entire relationship was based on a lie.If you want to watch a good rom-com, please do not watch this offensive tripe. It will make you scream and cry with rage like I did, and just make you question what life is.

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Mihai Toma
1995/04/27

After a lonely woman saves the life of a complete stranger, she's mistaken for his fiancé and slowly becomes integrated into his family, due to his coma. As her true identity couldn't be verified by anybody, everything seems to be well, until his brother shows up, whose character is about to play a very important role in the upcoming events.It's a lovely and romantic comedy, set in the heart of the winter holidays, which tells an improbable love story about two complete strangers who fall in love without their will and as much as they try to resist, as close they eventually become. It creates a warm and enjoyable atmosphere which lasts until the end. The actors play their roles very convincingly, making you care about their characters while keeping you eager to find out what will happen next and how it's going to end. Besides all of the above, it also manages to make you laugh from time to time, even out loud, just to spice things up a bit. It's a very good movie for everyone to enjoy, especially around the holidays, but not only.

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lilaamoi
1995/04/28

Let's make it clear, this is a pure rom-com. But a cleaver, funny and not too sweet one. I watched it by "accident" and because I like Sandra Bullock. It is really nice, well written and with great supporting actors. The main character (Bullock) works in public transport, has no family and is secretly in love with one the customers she sees daily at work. When she saves his life after he fell on the track one day, she goes to the hospital to get some news; she gets to meet the family, which has some hilarious characters, and kind of gets adopted by them while her love interest is in the coma ("while (he) was sleeping") Nothing philosophical. It just makes you feel good, and that is already a lot.

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