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While You Were Sleeping
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Starring: Micole Mercurio, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Dick Cusack, Ally Walker, Glynis Johns, Peter Boyle, Sandra Bullock, Jason Bernard, Jack Warden
Director: Jon Turteltaub
MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Hollywood Home Video
Running Time: 103 minutes
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 322
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UPC: 717951000156
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Product Description:
You'll fall in love with WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, the hit romantic comedy that woke everyone up to adorable Sandra Bullock (SPEED, A TIME TO KILL). As Lucy, a lonely subway worker, she becomes smitten with a handsome stranger (Peter Gallagher -- MALICE). But when she saves his life after he's been mugged and fallen into a coma, his hilariously offbeat family mistakes her for his fiancee! Soon, the mix-ups escalate as Lucy fabricates a life between herself and a man she's never met! And when Lucy falls for his charming brother (Bill Pullman -- INDEPENDENCE DAY) the situation really gets uproarious as she's forced to make a choice between the two!
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If you don't mind a heavy dose of schmaltz and sentiment, this romantic comedy has a gentle way of seducing you with its charms. While You Were Sleeping was the first starring role for Sandra Bullock after her blockbuster success in Speed. In a role that nicely emphasizes her easygoing appeal, Bullock is the reason the movie works at all. She plays Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, a Chicago Transit tollbooth clerk who's hopelessly smitten with a daily commuter, Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher). She saves the object of her affection from certain death after he's mugged and falls onto the train tracks. While Peter is in a coma, she lets his family believe that she is his fiancée, and surprisingly finds herself drawn to his brother (Bill Pullman), for whom the attraction is definitely mutual. How Lucy gets out of this amorous predicament is what makes this pleasant movie less predictable than its familiar ingredients would initially indicate. It's feel-good fluff, with characters and performances that keep you smiling through the drippy plot mechanics. --Jeff Shannon
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Lucy is a happy-go-lucky ticket seller, until one day she finds the man of her dreams and also sees him get mugged. After being mugged the man, known as Peter, goes into a coma. Lucy goes to visit him at the hospital and the nurse tells Peter's family that Lucy is his fiancée'. Lucy can not get the courage to tell them the truth and his family take her in as a member of their family. While with this family Lucy falls head over heels in love with Peter's brother, Jack. Lucy does not know what to do when Peter comes out of a coma and doesn't remember her. A great romantic comedy that is so pure and well-made that it is near impossible to say anything negative about it. It is not a perfect movie, but it is a very likeable movie that delivers what it promises. Sweet, charming, hilarious, and heartwarming romantic comedy.
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Got this after renting it and I like the extra features on the DVD. Great item for the price and I received it promptly. Thanks!
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While You Were Sleeping is one of my favorite feel good movies. Wore my VHS tape out and replaced with the disc. Sandra Bullock is just adorable in this film.
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When I was younger I really used to like this movie. Something about the everyday quality of Bill Pullman was appealing rather than the usual love hero who is so unrealistic that you aren't convinced. He doesn't jump on a train or get run over by a bus so if you are looking for excitement and romance rent Speed. This movie is a real Christmas sleeper.
The movie is okay. I personally love Glynis Johns' performance in this movie. I think she is probably the most interesting character. Bullock is some what typical. I do not understand the appeal to this movies where the heroine has a perfectly fine life and is somehow unhappy. She is unhappy simply because she is single and this film plays on the usual fairy tale plot were the woman conveniently has no family and must be adopted into the male's. We have seen this heroine with no responsibilities a dozen times. She is the same lonely character as Bridget Jones and basically has no real problems that you can find. The worst thing about her life is that she has to talk to a nice neighbor who is from a lower social class. She has a nice boss and appears to be making her expenses.
The film would just be a cute love story, but I do really care for the neighbor that is there to preform the movie's jokes. We get the Italian that plays the inferior white to Pullman's acceptable form. It is somewhat annoying when you see how Joe Jr plays a clown of an Italian and Lucy poke fun at how silly he is for attempting a relationship with her. I really venture to say that there is nothing interesting about this film apart from Glynis Johns.
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Cute Sandra Bullock's attractive good looks are tremendously down-played in this enchanting romantic comedy of "Love at Second Sight." The costume designer has her dressed in baggy sweaters, shapeless ankle-length skirts, and over-sized jackets because she is supposed to be a Chicago Transit Authority in a dead-end job with no future. Seeing Bullock's leading lady attractiveness so down-played through out the movie is one of the movies cute quirks.
You can read the plot summaries in the over 200 other reviews here. Part of what I like so much with watching "While You Were Sleeping" again and again is how the leading men in the film are portrayed as real men - working men both, 1 a yuppie (Peter Gallagher), 1 a blue-collar furniture maker (Bill Pullman). So many romances take the masculinity away from the men in the movie. A fun additional appearance is made by Michael Rispoli as Joe Jr. who became later better known in The Sopranos. Then enchanting qualities of the family and how that is part of the whole package which Lucy craves in romance is darling and totally understandable. I am half in love with them, too.
Amusingly enough, the original release date of the film was in April when the whole plot takes place around Christmas, New Year's and Epiphany. An enchanting addition to my Christmas holiday viewings now. Highly recommend.
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