While You Were Sleeping

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Summary: The Best!
Review: This was the first Sandra Bullock movie I saw and just loved it;cry over it every Christmas.It is a "lonely girl's fantasy come true"story and Bullock is perfect in the part.

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Summary: Miss Sandra Bullock's Best!
Review: Guilty as charged: I'm a Sandra Bullock fan so writing this review is pure fun for me. Though I have watched this film many times, it is now that I got a chance to write a review to this truly romantic and funny and heartbreaking film. As a matter of fact, everytime I view this film it never fails me to shed a tear. There are many funny scenes and dialogues in this Bullock film but those who watch this may also agree that there are also
a many sad scenes and feelings in this film. For instance, Sandra
as Lucy all by herself in an apartment with a cat as her companion and her conversation with Peter Gallagher while he's still in coma. Gone are the days for me when I watch a film due to visuals, now I really listen to the dialogue even if the film's script isn't award winning. I believe that's how I get the
substance of the film. Though this film isn't perfect, it's near
perfect. From the first rate stars down to the overall mood of the film. And one of the things I like in the film is its season:
Christmas. Personally,this season brought sad memories for me so it isn't hard to relate to Lucy's situation. I think everyone can
very well relate to Lucy or anybody's character like longing for
someone to love us and the lesson that falling in love is mainly due to the matters of the heart and not by physical thing.

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Summary: Romantic comedy as social surveillance.
Review: Although trading as an amiably casual romantic comedy, 'While You Were Sleeping ' is in actual fact a Horror Film. And the Fear is its central protagonist, Lucy. Cut off from the Family, unpoliced by her father, she is a single woman with an unlimited, socially disruptive potential for promiscuity, to the point where every man in the film, young or old, rich or poor, can be plausibly linked to her as a partner. The film's movement is to rein this potential wild card in, bring her back to the Family, to a site where privacy is given up in exchange for comfort, where one is constantly being looked at by others. In such a scenario, Peter the coma-guy is not so much her ideal better half as her bad double - he IS promiscuous, he lives his life away from the family.

This gives a dark edge to what is a film smirking like a Nora Ephron clone, especially if we switch the film's focus from its apparent heroine onto Bill Pullman's Jack (which I would advise those with sensitive stomachs to do, those immune to Ms. Bullock's 'charms'). He is a kind of detective-spy, investigating Lucy to ensure that she is family-worthy and controllable. This is not to say that there aren't tensions - Jack wants to leave his dad's business; but there is no question of him leaving the family circle, which simply absorbs outsider-goodness, in the shapes of Lucy and godfather Saul. Indeed, fathers and their children is a major sub-theme, with Lucy looking for someone to replace her idealised dad.

To be honest, 'Sleeping' is only truly enjoyable whenever the wonderful Peter Gallagher is on screen, his breezing egotism a breath of fresh air in an atmosphere dank with goodwill. But if this film plays Peter's dream - and it IS HE who is sleeping - and all the characters are reflections of HIS ego, than the film opens up far more interesting possibilities.

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Summary: I love It!!!
Review: This movie is wonderful! Sandra Bullock is so charming and all of the other cast combined makes this a great movie! I could watch this movie over and over again! All the characters make this a fun movie. You will smile, and laughing, and feel! I highly recommend this movie to everyone!!!

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Summary: If I could give this movie more than 5 stars I would!!
Review: This is the best "feel good" movie I have seen. I watch this movie when I am happy, sad, or just want to watch a good flick. Sandra Bullock plays the part of a person with no family so well that you just want to hug her and invite her into your own. The entire cast does a great job with this movie, "Grandma Elsie" cracks me up with her "Episodes" I had not seen Glynnis Johns do such a good job since she played the mother of Jane and Michael Banks in "Mary Poppins". The scenes of "Lucy" and her boss are also a highlight.
This movie is not just a holiday movie, I'd recommend it anytime.

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Summary: feel-good romance movie that even the kids can watch
Review: What Lucy experiences is the fairytale most women want & don't get. She has a crush on a smile & a face, & on her one chance to say something to the guy, all she can say is 'uh' (sound like something you'd do?). Then after she saves his life, her life is taken out of her hands by his family's mistaken impression that she is the guy's fiancee. She's just swept along by their enthusiasm & can't quite figure out how to get out of it without hurting their feelings. And the more you watch, the more you realize that she is a genuinely nice person stuck in a situation she doesn't know how to get out of (& doesn't really want to be out of). And since the closest she comes to taking off her clothes in the entire movie is when she takes her coat off inside the guy's family's house for the Christmas celebration, even the kids can watch. The movie is not filled with bad language, either. This is a movie that's easy to watch several times. It just makes you feel good to see someone's dreams come true.

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Summary: Modern Fairy Tale -- Very Pleasant Family Movie
Review: Sandra Bullock delights as the working girl who saves the life of the man she had admired for weeks. While the man lies unconscious, his family embraces Bullock as a heroine, especially when through a misunderstanding everyone believes that she is the victim's fiancee. Within a few days Bullock falls in love with the victim's brother, who is returning her feelings. When the man whose life Bullock saved regains consciousness with a case of amnesia, he appears surprised to be engaged -- The story is told like it was read from a diary Bullock had kept to chronicle her affection for the man whose life she saved. In conclusion Bullock tells the man WHEN all of these events have happened..."while you were sleeping". -- This is a wonderful romantic comedy. It's right up there with "Sleepless in Seattle" and "Pretty Woman". *****

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Summary: While you were sleeping, this good movie was made
Review: A lonely sales clerk named Lucy (Sandra Bullock), just happens to save a rich man, Peter (Peter Gallagher), from being hit and killed by a fast movin' train. A nurse at the hospital gets a not so true rumor started that Lucy is Peter's fiancee. This rumor sets Peter's family on fire because they didn't have any idea that Lucy was Peter's fiancee, and to tell the truth, neither did Peter. However, Lucy is real soft-spoken and Peter is in a coma, so the rumor just might go on a little longer than expected. While everything starts changing because of this rumor, Lucy falls for somebody that Peter's family knows pretty well.

"While You Were Sleeping" is an original romantic comedy. To say the least, it's real fast-paced when it comes to some of the things that happens and it'll probably be hard for you to wait to see what happens, but luckily, the movie's plot is interesting enough and the movie itself is good enough, to keep you watching and wanting to see what happens.

"While You Were Sleeping" has good acting, a good script, and it's original. I don't know about everybody else, but romantic comedies aren't my favorite kind of movie, so they have to be pretty good for me to like them, and I liked "While You Were Sleeping." If you haven't ever seen it, at least rent it, but if you really like romantic comedies, I recommend a purchase.

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Summary: One of Sandra's Best
Review: Sandra Bullock does a wonderful job portraying Lucy Eleanor Moderatz a lonely transit worker, who thinks she has found the man of her dreams when she sees Peter Callaghan. While working on Christmas Day, Lucy once again sees Peter. But while Peter is waiting for his train he is mugged and falls onto the train track. Lucy witnesses the incident and rushes over to save him from an oncoming train. Later on she goes to the hospital to see if he is all right. A hospital employee overhears Lucy say she was going to marry him and tells the family that Peter Callaghan was saved by his very own fiancée. Lucy is instantly a part of the Callaghan family. She is invited to a party by the Callaghan's but while she is there she meets Peter's other brother Jack. She has to dodge Jack's endless questions about Peter's and her relationship. She finds that she is actually falling in love with Jack but is told that Peter is finally out of his coma and Peter suddenly asks Lucy to marry him. Lucy has to make a decision between the both of them in this cute hilarious comedy that will have you wondering why it was called while you were sleeping.

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Summary: Standard Sandra
Review: Sandra Bullock proves once again that her acting ability is very limited in a roll written for the hopeless romantic. Bill Pullman is as wooden as ever. Would not reccomend the film unless you're into completely improbable romantic films.