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Summary: Extremely cute
Review: What makes "While you were sleeping" special is a hard question to answer.It is a typical example of romantic comedies,which means we get to see tons more every year with incredibly similar scripts.But this movie will always have a unique place for me.Lucy (Sandra Bullock) is a subway worker who is infatuated with a guy she doesn't know anything about.One day she saves his life,but the guy is comatosed and Lucy is mistaken as his fiancee by the guy's family.She wants to tell them the truth,but can't,as the family offers her the love that was missing in her life.To add more to the puzzle,begins a romantic interest between Lucy and the brother of the comatosed fiancee. Sandra Bullock has always been known for her sweet smile and warm acting style,but I think she was at her best in that area in While You Were Sleeping.She is not the best actress around for sure,but I can not think of another person that would be a better fit for this role.Bill Pullman also pulls a nice performance and they have a nice chemistry throughout the whole movie.The story is not the best we have seen,quite predictible at times,but it is pretty funny never gets you bored. This is the best of Bullock.Don't miss it..
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Summary: SWEET MOVIE!!
Review: While You Were Sleeping is endearingly sweet and laugh-out-loud funny. Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman, the romantic leads, are excellently cast and have an even more excellent chemistry between each other. This movie will have you awwwing at the love between Lucy and Jack, and laughing at the family and situation. Highlight to look out for is the icy sidewalk scene- very very well done!! This movie is also very appropriate. In all, great movie, a little predictable but cute!
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Summary: The SWEETEST movie!
Review: While You Were Sleeping is one of my favorite movies of all time. I must have watched the DVD at least 20 times. My husband is getting a little tired of it, but there are nights when I tell him, "It's either this or 'Babe'!" From the opening scene, there is something sweetly philosophical about this movie, and Sandra Bullock has never been more appealing as a funny, klutzy girl who never makes it out of Chicago. (Of course, Sandra Bullock playing a woman who is frumpy is stretching credibility a bit.) And if any woman can keep from melting when Bill Pullman focuses that sweet, intense gaze, I've yet to meet her. The vulnerability of the main characters gets you pulling for them right from the start, and the secondary characters do a wonderful job of convincing you that they are real with their own histories. Peter Boyle is hysterical as the decent, but frustrated, father of Bill Pullman. And Peter Gallegher does a star turn as a handsome, spoiled "putz," as one of the characters calls him. Glynis Johns is laugh-out-loud funny as the sweetly confused grandmother. All in all, this is a movie that is well worth watching over and over again, especially when you need a little reminder that love is waiting out there for us all.
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Summary: Blows "Sleepless in Seattle" right out of the water!
Review: Forget all the rest, "While You Were Sleeping" is the best romantic comedy to come out of Hollywood in the past decade. Every moment of this sweetly endearing story will leave you with a warm and tingly feeling all over that won't wear off until long after the movie ends. In her first starring vehicle, an extremely appealing Sandra Bullock plays lonely subway worker Lucy and brings a warmth, freshness, and vulnerability to this character that everyone can identify with. After all, we've all had unrequited crushes on someone else at one point in our lives, but when Lucy saves the life of her "dream man" Peter, a hilarious comedy of errors ensues at the hospital when she is mistaken for his fiancee and passed off to his family as such. In the beginning, Lucy reluctantly plays along with the ruse, but as she falls in love with Peter's family and especially his brother Jack, she finds it very difficult to tell them the truth - that she is not engaged to Peter, indeed she has never even spoken to him! Bullock and Pullman shine as the two romantic leads who are loath to admit how attracted they are to each other, and the marvellous supporting cast add many laughs to this gem of a movie. This is a very entertaining way to spend over ninety minutes. You would have to be very hard to please if you didn't enjoy this movie about love at second sight. Film makers should shoot more stories like this!
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Summary: WONDERFUL!
Review: An outstanding romantic comedy, While You Were Sleeping, brings to the screen the story of a girl working at a Chicago Transit tollbooth who has a soft spot for a complete stranger who buys tickets from her every day, but that's as far as it goes. When one day she saves his life and brings him to the hospital where he remains in a state of coma, his family thinks that that the two are engaged. If that wasn't enough, she gradually falls for the man's brother with all the ups and downs that that entails!
It is a film about human relations, hope and second chances, but most importantly about trust, love, and inner strength.
Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, and the rest of the cast, have outdone themselves with their performances, which are exceptional to say the least. All the actors, without exceptions, give it their 100% and it really shows (the chemistry is AMAZING)! Very well written and very well presented, the movie is without a doubt guaranteed to provide more than just a few laughs, not to mention a few tears. The film is simple enough, but does a great job of describing people's every day lives and the problems they face. It just goes to show that simplicity is often far better than complexity, when trying to present issues of a human nature.
The setting, the plot, the dialogues, the humor (!!!), and the music are all wonderful!
In short, While You Were Sleeping is a movie definitely worth watching and one to seriously consider adding to your movie collection!
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Summary: Wonderful from start to finish
Review: This movie is addictive; watch it once and like it, then again and like it some more. By the 3rd, time, you'll LOVE IT! The ensemble cast works perfectly. You will relate to the quirky lead characters, the butt-in-ski relatives, the sweet and lovable super's son, even the stuck up former fiance who Jack proposed to.
Lucy, Jack and Peter are three people who come together by chance, have very little in common, and yet can learn volumes from one another while building their relationships. I don't want to give too much away, the plot is not all that tricky, but you'll appreciate some subtle dialog along with facial expressions that will leave you howling (Lucy trying to get everyone's attention in the hospital the first time the family sees Peter recovering).
You will totally root for Lucy as she struggles between telling the truth to Peter and his family, falls for Jack, even keeps her dream alive of stamping her passport in Italy. The music is lighthearted and pleasant throughout, and by the closing credits you'll either be crying with joy (admit it, it's sappy but touching) or smiling with acknowledgement that happy endings make a movie love story so darned great. Enjoy!
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Summary: An enjoyable film
Review: This is one of the better movies of its genre. Sandra Bullock plays a likable girl whose main desire in life is to get a stamp in her passport from a foreign country. Having lost both parents, she lives with her cat in a small Chicago apartment with her cat and has to avoid the stereotypical Italian (a la Andrew Dice Clay) super's son's advances.
She works a a token booth clerk and fantasizes about a rich passenger that passes her booth daily. One day he is pushed to the tracks by some teens and knocked unconscious. Bullock jumps to the tracks and saves him and then goes with him to the hospital. He is in a coma and when his family comes to visit, they mistakenly think that Bullock is his fiancee.
Bullock doesn't have the heart to tell them she isn't, especially because they are so nice and provide Bullock with the family affection that she is missing. It gets real interesting when Bullock slowly starts falling for the coma man's brother. Tension mounts knowing that wben the coma man wakes, Bullock will be exposed as a fake.
This was a really fun movie.
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Summary: They get everything right!
Review: This is one of my favorite romantic comedies. I think what it gets right is something others don't focus on. It is not enough to just have a great couple, but you have to create a world for them as well. The supportive roles are just as important as the leads.
I think most women like Sandra Bullock, because she beautiful, but not so beautiful that we cannot relate to her. She is smart and very funny. She is a good person who deserves love. I think it's great that there is this guy she idealizes and projects all of her romantic fantasies on to. Of course, if she ever talked to him that would end quickly.
She ends up being drawn into this kooky family, which is what she is really looking for...not just love, but a home. Bill Pullman is very attractive as a good down to earth guy who sees how wonderful she is. There are so many warm and wonderful moments in this movie.
I think the humor is the other thing it has going for it. Michael Rispoli is hilarious, as is Sandra. I think guys who are not that into romantic comedies may be able to deal with this one because of the humor.
My favorite scene is when she is pouring her heart out to the Peter Gallagher character in the hospital. The loneliness and sadness is something we have all felt at some point.
A wonderful movie all around.
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Summary: the best romantic comedy ever
Review: The story is sweet and could have been sticky, and yet it is a deep, touching movie about loneliness, with a happy ending for many (Lucy, all the family). The casting deserves an Oscar, it is perfect. Though if I had been asked if I would chose Bill Pullmann, before I saw him, I would have said no, for I could not detect any sex appeal in him in Sleepless in Seattle. I know better now. He is a terrific actor, that is why I have not noticed before how attractive he is! He can play the clumsy niceguy and you cannot imagine you would like to be touched by him. In While you were Sleeping, I developed a crush for him, he could touch me any time! The movie can be seen again and again, and never gets boring, instead one discovers little "Schmankerl" by listening better to the dialogs. One wants to sit among the family at the dinner table when they have this hilarious conversation, where both Jack and Lucy for the first time share the same sense of humour and enjoy it. Sharing the same sense of humor is most important for a lasting relationship/marriage. One wants to know more about what happened after he proposes in the toll booth, one wants to know how they lived after they married. The best scene? Not just one: definitely when they slipped on the ice, but also when Jack explains what leaning is and Joe jr. interrupts and asks "is this guy bothering you? I know carate", and when Joe jr. cried about Miss 3rd floor and Lucy invites him to try on her shoes again. This scene shows that the makers of this film had the true Christian spirit: understanding, caring, and accepting that loneliness has many faces, and how charitable it is to be tolerant and not condemming. Anyone saying this film is "only" a comedy? They ought to see the film again, for it is so much much more. Anyone saying this film is not realistic? Think again! Lucy was lonely, but brave, has a loving and kind heart, it is very realistic that she daydreams about one man, and truly falls in love with another. It is a fact that if you are romantic and admit it, romantic things will happen to you. Same holds true that if you do not believe in love, you most probably will never feel the breathlessness and the sparks. Thanks to all who made this wonderful movie possible.
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Summary: Bullock's Greatest Performance...
Review: In this movie, Sandra Bullock (Speed) plays undoubtably the greatest role of her career. In this flick, she plays Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, a lonely train station token clerk that falls in love with an everyday commuter named Peter Callahan (Peter Gallagher - Malice). One day, Christmas Day while she is the only one at work Peter gets mugged while waiting for the train and gets pushed onto the train tracks falling into a coma. When she goes to the hospital to get in, she says to herself outloud, "I was going to marry him." Then a nurse overhears her, and tells the family that Lucy is the fiancee. An outrageous comedy begins.
At first, Lucy wants to tell them the truth before it gets out of hand. But it does. As things progress, she falls in love with Peter's hilarious family. She goes to Christmas Dinner at the Callahan house. Then she starts to fall in love with Peter's younger brother, Jack (Bill Pullman - Independence Day). Jack immediately is attracted to Lucy and is forced to hold in his feelings for her as he thinks that Lucy is really going to marry Peter. As Peter remains in his coma, Lucy and Jack start falling in love the more they spend time with each other.
Finally Peter wakes up, of course doesn't know who Lucy is but his family convinces him that she is his fiancee and he plays along with it and plans to marry her. Now it is time for Lucy to choose Peter or Jack. Who will it be?
Watch the movie and find out. This is one of the greatest romance comedies I have ever seen. Without a doubt, this truly is Sandra Bullock's greatest performance ever.
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