While You Were Sleeping
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Lucy, a young Chicago transit worker, escapes her lonely existence when she rescues a handsome commuter she has admired from afar, Peter, from the path of a speeding subway train. While Peter languishes in a coma, his concerned family mistakes Lucy for his fiancee and she goes along with the deception, enjoying a warm family relationship missing in her own life. Matters become increasingly complic
Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
MPAA rating : PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Product Dimensions : 0.56 x 5.34 x 7.48 inches; 0.01 ounces
Item model number : 717951000156
Director : Jon Turteltaub
Media Format : Color, Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen, Letterboxed, Dolby
Run time : 1 hour and 43 minutes
Release date : January 6, 1998
Actors : Bill Pullman, Jack Warden, Peter Boyle, Peter Gallagher, Sandra Bullock
Subtitles: : Spanish
Producers : Roger Birnbaum, Joe Roth
Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0), French (Dolby Digital 2.0), Unqualified
Studio : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
ASIN : 6304765266
Country of Origin : USA
Number of discs : 1
13 reviews for While You Were Sleeping
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DLG –
Being a good person is contagious! This story is about a person who sees the best in everyone
How many movies do you see where the heroine is always able to see the good in people and make them better people? This is one. I love the story, the characters and the good feeling it gives me to watch it.
Cupcake –
Entertaining movie
This is a good movie for light humor and romance. The story is interesting with humor and the characters involved are well acted and seem stereotypical for the time and place the story is told.
Roberta P –
quick, safe delivery
Product as advertised. Came quickly. Good service. Thanks
Patricia Murdzak –
Haven’t seen it for a couple if years but remember how much I liked it.
Sandra Bullock was very good in this movie! Romantic comedy! Highly recommend this one!
Anthony Wong –
Love this movie
Love this movie
Anna Humeston –
Good movie but Sandra Bullock is one of my favorites not sure she makes a bad movie
I like this movie. I’ve seen it twice. My daughter liked it as well (age 15). My son considered it too mushy but he is 11 after all. The only reason I didn’t give it a 5 is because I reserve those for the absolute BEST movies ever. There are very few that make that cut.
Mark J. Fowler –
A Chick Flick that Guys can like too!
For her work after “Speed” my brother began referring to Sandra Bullock as “Queen of the Chick Flicks”, and I won’t disagree, although some of her films work much better for members of both sexes than others. “While You Were Sleeping” is an entertaining film for Guys and Dolls, and it works in repeated viewings.Sandra portrays Lucy Moderatz, who takes tolls on the L train in Chicago and from afar has an obsessive crush on the handsome, well-dressed Peter Callaghan, played by Peter Gallagher. The audience must willingly accept that someone as likable and attractive as Sandra Bullock is stuck in a dead-end job where she is lonely and works all the holidays because, after all, she doesn’t have anyone to share them with. The movie doesn’t give you much time to dwell on this because before you know it, Peter is getting mugged and knocked off Lucy’s train station platform where he falls unconscious onto the path of a rapidly approaching train. Not surprisingly, Lucy jumps down and pulls the man of her dreams to safety. Lucy then follows the comatose Peter to the hospital where a nurse overhears Lucy in one of her daydreams say “this is the man I’m going to marry” – which naturally leads the nurse to think that Lucy and Peter are engaged when, in fact, the only words that have passed between them are when Peter paused to say “Merry Christmas” as he dropped his token into Lucy’s toll booth.Peter’s wonderful family arrives and the misunderstanding of Lucy as Peter’s fiancee is perpetuated. Lucy could have cleared up the whole misunderstanding from the first moments but:1. Peter’s family is wonderful and Lucy is lonely.2. Peter’s grandmother has a “heart condition” and Lucy fears that telling the truth may send Grandma over the edge. (The screenwriters were clearly searching for a reason for Lucy to not just fess up….)3. Since Lucy has been fantasizing about Peter for awhile it’s not that difficult for her to pretend to be his fiancee.I’ve heard Roger Ebert say it’s not as important *what* a movie is about as *how* the movie is about that thing.This movie would be doomed to failure if it were only about some pathetic toll-taker who pretends to be engaged to her dream-boat to his family while he’s in a coma. But Lucy isn’t pathetic – she’s as likable and attractive as, well, Sandra Bullock, and Peter’s family is full of charming, likable folks. Peter, as things would have it, isn’t as charming as Lucy dreamt. Although he used to be in the family business of antique furniture, he went to law school and now barely keeps in touch with his family. He has a bitchy girlfriend who is in Europe leaving calls on his answering machine while he is in a coma – one of the calls tells him “yes, I’ll marry you”.Again – it’s not difficult to guess where much of this is going. Bill Pullman plays Peter’s charming, easy-going brother, Jack, who has stayed close to the family, running Dad’s business. (There is an extremely well-done low-key scene close to the end where Jack tells Dad, played by Peter Boyle, that he wants to MAKE furniture instead of just dealing it – which will mean getting out of the family business. The scene has both a ring of authenticity, not yielding to any histrionic cliches, and at the same time maintaining the warm feelings that you’ve built up for both of these characters by this portion of the movie. These kinds of scenes *make* this movie.)Jack Warden gets special kudos from me as Peter’s godfather, Saul, who loves his godson, but also comes to love Lucy as well. Michael Rispoli steals a few scenes as “Joe, Jr.” the son of Lucy’s landlord. In the early scenes Joe comes across as a shorter, heavier Andrew Dice Clay wannabe. But by the end even Joe has become someone deserving our admiration. This is the kind of movie where you want nice things to happen to the characters – and the movie goes about it’s business in a very satisfying way.
Be Blessed ! –
Family friendly
Such a sweet movie. One of my favs. The acting was well done. Family friendly for sure.
Sylvie –
Très bon film
Cliente Amazon –
Deliziosa commedia degli equivoci, dove Lucy ( la simpaticissima Sandra Bullock) lavora alla biglietteria della metropolitana e si innamora di uno sconosciuto, l’affascinante Peter, che incrocia ogni giorno. Peter, vittima di un’aggressione, viene salvato da Lucy, ma cade in coma. Il caso vuole che, in ospedale, lei venga scambiata per la fidanzata di Peter e venga accolta a braccia aperte da tutta la sua famiglia. Le cose però si complicano quando…Il film è del 1995 e quindi la qualità audio/video del dvd non è delle migliori, ma quando ho voglia di vedere una commedia romantica, ma divertente, con buone battute e ottimamente interpretata, lo rivedo sempre volentieri, rigorosamente in lingua originale.
Heaven –
Très bon film avec Sandra Bullock, je recommande
Rosalinda Avalos –
Me fascina
m/arcolino –
Wer auf romantische Liebeskomödien steht, der ist bei âwährend Du schliefstâ genau richtig. JON TURTELTAUB hat mit diesem Film eine ganz bezaubernde Liebes- und Verwechslungskomödie hingezaubert, die aber in erster Linie wegen ihrer herausragenden Darsteller so gut funktioniert.SANDRA BULLOCK ist einfach hinreiÃend, sie ist die tragende Figur und der Garant für den Erfolg, ganz ohne Zweifel. In ihrem Windschatten kann BILL PULLMAN zur Bestform auflaufen, er hat einfach nur nett uns sympathisch zu sein, den Rest erledigt SANDRA BULLOCK.Der Film dreht sich um die alleinstehende Ticketverkäuferin âLUCY MODERATZâ (Sandra Bullock), die Tag für Tag im Schalter einer Hochbahn-Station sitzt. Einziger Lichtblick ist für sie ein unbekannter attraktiver Mann, der jeden Morgen bei ihr ein Ticket kauft, sie aber nie wahrnimmt. In ihren romantischen Tagträumen ist sie die Frau seines Herzens, wohlwissentlich, dass dieser Traum nie in Erfüllung gehen wird.Am ersten Weihnachtsfeiertag wendet sich das Blatt, denn âLUCYâ wird Zeuge, wie der Mann ihrer Träume auf dem Bahnsteig überfallen und auf die Gleise gestoÃen wird. Beherzt springt sie auf die Gleise und rettet dem bewusstlosen Mann das Leben. âPETER CALLAGHANâ (Peter Gallagher), wie der Mann heiÃt, wird ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert und als sie sich dort nach ihrem im Koma liegenden Angebeten erkundigt, wird sie fälschlicherweise für dessen Verlobte gehalten. Als die liebenswerten Familienmitglieder das mitbekommen, bringt es âLUCYâ nicht übers Herz ihnen die Wahrheit zu sagen â¦.Ich sag es mal so, der Film ist einfach schön und auch wer nicht unbedingt auf romantische Liebeskomödien steht, dürfte hier schon auch Gefallen dran finden. In erster Linie liegt das wirklich an SANDRA BULLOCK, die musst du einfach mögen, die will man einfach herzen und in den Arm nehmen. Gut gefällt mir, dass Witz und Humor nicht so plump und oberflächlich sind, das wurde wirklich mit viel Augenmaà gemacht.Neben SANDRA BULLOCK und BILL PULLMAN (Jack Callaghan) verblassen alle anderen Darsteller ein wenig, nicht dass sie schlecht wären, im Gegenteil, sie spielen ihre Rollen perfekt, die beiden sind einfach absolut dominierend. Gut, man muss jetzt auch dazu sagen, dass die ganze Story nur um sie gesponnen wurde, aber sie machen das einfach brillant.Mein Fazit: âWährend Du schliefstâ ist eine wunderschöne und bezaubernde Liebeskomödie, die vor allem wegen einer hinreiÃenden SANDRA BULLOCK so gut funktioniert. Ich habe den Film schon ein paar Mal gesehen und finde ihn wirklich schön, der geht ans Herz â¦. SANDRA BULLOCK ist zum Niederknien ⦠da passt alles!