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List Price: $9.99 | | Label: Hollywood Home Video
Salesrank: 274
Released: February 4, 1998 |
| Our Price: $4.88 |
| Used Price: $4.47 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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!
Description of While You Were Sleeping:
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
While You Were Sleeping Reviews:
The Best Romantic/Christmas/Family/Comedy 
2009-12-10 - 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.
Sandra Bullock does it again
2009-11-30 - I have watched this movie many times, and it tugs at my heart strings each and every time. Shared it with my niece when she was 12, and she loved it as well.
This is a gem, a diamond not at all in the rough. Don't miss it.
while you were sleeping
2009-10-11 - By buying this I have updated my own self recorded copy of this Sandra Bullock touching comedy. Shipping was very quick. Product is in excellent condition.
Adorable film!
2009-10-06 - Loved this movie for a long time now. Watched it many times. The actors are so cute together and it brings the whole film in nicely for the story line. I love the chemistry between Bullock and Pullman. They are just great together - very believable! Funny - touching - A feel good movie!
Suprised while I was awake
2009-08-31 - When I feel overloaded I slip this delightful movie on . I'd recommend it to any women wanting to have a smile on their face at the end of a movie. I love Sandra Bullock and she portrays an innocence and at the same time has a maturity that in some ways is rare.
