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While You Were Sleeping [Region 2] | ![While You Were Sleeping [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XWB35FR0L._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Jon Turteltaub
Actors: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden
Category: DVD
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Rating:  244 reviews
Sales Rank: 187279
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Croatian (Subtitled), German (Original Language), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
EAN: 7321922345080
ASIN: B00004RYEF
Theatrical Release Date: April 21, 1995
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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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 Love this movie February 1, 2010
Sheryl Henry (Michigan)
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.
 I've seen worse. January 8, 2010
Carol Hunt
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.
While You Were Sleeping - Enchanting Romantic Comedy January 6, 2010
April Braswell (Las Vegas, NV)
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.
 Classic Sandra Bullock January 5, 2010
Chroochlay
Love this movie! It's one of the films I watch when I'm feeling down; I always know what I'm getting. Even though it's a bit creepy that Sandra Bullock is basically obsessed and stalking this man, I love this movie.
The Best Romantic/Christmas/Family/Comedy December 10, 2009
R G
Perhaps my favorite romantic film of all time, on par with Ever After and Only You (also highly recommended), that I've watched at least a hundred times since I was a little girl. It is Bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock at their best, along with the rest of the amazing cast, Peter Boyle, Peter Galagher, and Jack Warden. This is the ultimate family romantic comedy, tieing in a lovely Christmas theme-Bullock's character doesn't have a family and is 'adopted' by Bill Pullman's at Christmas, along with an interesting twist on what would be her ultimate romantic fantasy. Bullock has eyed this gorgeous man, Peter Galagher, everyday at the train station ticket booth, attempting to make the first hints of conversation-but fails-until she is forced into his life by a freak accident where she must rescue him from impending death on the train tracks. A mix-up at the hospital makes her family believe she is not only the now comatose Peter's rescuer, but fiance! She attempts to tell the truth but gets so emotionally pulled into the family with her needing them to have someone to spend a lonely Christmas with, and them needing her to hold onto Peter while they wait for him to wake from the coma, that she simply plays along with the lie but oops! Eventually starts falling for her dream man's brother! It shows many moral lessons, one that love is getting to know a person, not falling into an infatuation with their image everyday, and the appreciation of having a family to come home to for Christmas. I highly recommend this movie for children and adults, it is filled with heartwarming and hilarious (as in the case of Joe Fusco, Jr.) characters that you will love for ages.
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