Fresh
[Bullock] knows one of the secrets of doing romantic comedy: treating the romance as a good joke.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
While You Were Sleeping
A story about love at second sight.
1995 · 1h 43m · PG
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Jon Turteltaub
Overview
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.
Director and cast
- Jon Turteltaub Director
- Sandra Bullock as Lucy Eleanor Moderatz
- Bill Pullman as Jack Callaghan
- Peter Gallagher as Peter Callaghan
- Peter Boyle as Ox Callaghan
- Jack Warden as Saul
- Glynis Johns as Elsie
- Micole Mercurio as Midge Callaghan
- Jason Bernard as Jerry
- Michael Rispoli as Joe Jr.
- Ally Walker as Ashley Bacon
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Compared to While You Were Sleeping, even the half-baked scenario of the Marisa Tomei-Robert Downey Jr. romance Only You looks witty and inventive.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh
It's Bullock's first shot at a role in which she plays second fiddle neither to males nor special effects. And she turns out to be every bit as delightful as anyone might have expected.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Rotten
A cute premise with engaging leads but little else to keep you awake.
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
Rotten
It plays like a movie dreamed up by people in a studio marketing department who'd decided to bare their souls.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
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