While You Were Sleeping (1995)

Thanks for the memories!

Absolutely Fantastic

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This is my absolute No.1 favourite feel good film of all time about a lonely girl who lives with her pretty little pet cat.Lucy is single, has no siblings & has parents who've passed away. She lives alone with her cat, works holidays & feels a wee bit lonely around Christmas while decorating her Christmas tree. She passes her time thinking about her dad,eating dinner with her cat,negotiating with her boss, attending Christmas parties , being set up by her downstairs neighbour-cum-landlord with his cocky,mouth-breather of a son ( the very sweet , Joe Fusco Jr. ) & secretly mooning after daily train commuter, the well dressed ,rich Peter Callaghan from her token booth.Things change for Lucy on Christmas when she saves Peter from the train tracks on which he's fallen. At the hospital ,Peter is in a coma & she's mistaken as his fiancee. Before she can clarify, she is enveloped by Peter's loving, talkative family & she succumbs reluctantly at first & later willingly ,to the warm embrace of being part of a large,quirky family once again- a farce she carries on partly at Sauls ( Peter's godfather ) behest & mostly because of her emotional connection with not just the family, but to Peters brother, Jack ( Bill Pullman ) - who is at first,suspicious of Lucy supposedly being his polished,urbane brother's ,scruffy girlfriend ; but finds himself drawn to her & gets familiar with her quirks ( about florence, her unstamped passport etc ) & quietly falls in love with her.Its all smooth sailing after that, till Lucy & Peters wedding date is finalized when Peter wakes up from his coma & believes he has amnesia. Jack refuses to acknowledge his feelings for Lucy,believing her to be his brothers intended , putting Lucy in a fix. Whom does Lucy marry to end her lonely existence & who finally takes her to Florence, fulfilling her dreams ?A slow paced, pleasant ,romantic comedy. 9/10.

but I am in love with the movie.I'm kicking myself for watching this movie just recently. I was quite young when this movie was first released but that is not an excuse for overseeing this movie for so long. I am so glad I watched it. And I'm going to keep watching it over and over...I am a sucker for romantic comedies and a lot of them are disappointing. It's very rare to fall in love with a movie, and 'while you were sleeping' has that effect on me. The key to the Lucy and Jack's romance is chemistry, and boy did they have chemistry. The element to a great story, whether it is reading or watching is to show not tell. And that's what exactly what it was. The looks that you see Jack and Lucy give each other, their body language, the deep conversations they have, the way he describes her, and how she's head over heels for him. The tension they create when put together wasn't anything sexual; it was something much, much deeper. Something that will last a lifetime. The other key factors to this movie are the Callaghans and Saul, and everyone else. They bring out the comedy side to the movie. They are a hilarious bunch, and are not a tad annoying, not even the real fiancée or Peter; just really, really funny and fun to be with.Put two and two together, and they have formulated an almost perfect Romantic Comedy. (I am going to say almost, because nothing in this world is perfect)Now Bill Pullman—that's a different topic!

I thought it was time to see this again after all these years, and it is just as fresh and wonderful as it was when it came out, like the smell of bread just taken from the oven. It is an exhilarating and essentially perfect romantic comedy. It comes off so wonderfully because of the central casting of the irresistibly charming Sandra Bullock. Whatever she lacks in Vogue cover beauty, she makes up for in tsunamis of personality. Who could say no to her? All she has to do is just smile or just look at you. Well, Bill Pullman certainly can't resist her in this film. And neither could his family. This film is so famous that most people know the story, which is the ingenious notion that Bullock saves the life of a handsome young man, played by Peter Gallagher, who is mugged and falls unconscious onto an overground subway track in front of an oncoming express train in Chicago. Bullocks leaps down, rolls over with him, and they just make it. She goes with him to the hospital but they won't let her follow him in because she is not a family member, so she pretends to be his fiancée. Then the story takes place while he is sleeping. i.e. in a deep coma, where Gallagher's family accept him as his fiancée and she is in countless comedic situations of having to pretend to know all sorts of things about him. In fact she had been in love with him for a long time, but they had never really met. It is a great idea, and it works to absolute perfection. There are many, many laughs. The film was magnificently directed by Jon Turteltaub (which means 'turtle dove' in German, just in case you wondered), who came from the unlikely background of having previously directed (gasp, gulp) 3 NINJAS (1992). Believe that if you can. This film is the only listed writing credit for Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric LeBow. What happened to them? Surely they should have gone on writing stuff of this calibre. Did a hole in the earth open up and swallow them? The story and script are absolutely brilliant. Bill Pullman is also perfectly cast as the brother of Gallagher who falls in love with Bullock but nobly refrains from doing anything about it. Jack Warden provides heavyweight backup as family friend 'Uncle' Saul. The dotty family are all marvellous. Everybody is marvellous, everything is marvellous, the film is marvellous. Get the picture?

I am not really a fan of chick flicks. I think they are only good when it's raining outside. However, I am a big fan of Sandra Bullock so I watched it. This film did not make me laugh, or want to fall in love all over again but it sure gave me a warm smile in my heart. It doesn't bore you at all. Entertaining for sure you won't notice how much time you spent facing the screen. I was just surprised Peter Gallagher used to do this kind of role... you know sleeping. Hahaha! I was kinda hooked with his role as Arthur in Covert Affairs. It sure has the Sandra B charm. I will surely watch it all over again, and I recommend it to women who live alone and watch TV with their cats. or to ladies living with roomies. This could bring in some giggle. :)