John Turteltaub (Cool Runnings) pulls a surprisingly heartwarming and seductive movie out of the bag with While You Were Sleeping - the hit romantic comedy that took girl-next-door Sandra Bullock and propelled her to fame.
With her easy-going and vulnerable charm, Bullock plays the role of Lucy perfectly - a family-less subway ticket-collector working in Chicago. Each day whilst in her booth, she watches handsome Peter Callaghan, a commuter who she's hopelessly besotted with and dreams of meeting.
One morning fate intervenes when Peter is mugged... at the station and falls into the path of a train. Without thinking Lucy leaves her post, jumps onto the tracks and saves his life. Peter is knocked into a coma and when his wacky family visit him they incorrectly assume that Lucy is his fiancée. Despite the mix-up Lucy just can't seem to put them right and is grateful for their warmth and attention. In spite of being nervous about Peter waking up and revealing her lie, Lucy finds herself being drawn further into family-life and closer to Jack (Bill Pullman), her fake-fiancés brother.
Jack is sceptical about Lucy, as his brother never mentioned her, but as the two spend time with each other they learn more about themselves and begin to fall in love. Suddenly Lucy's fairly simply life has turned very messy and it's sure to get more complicated when Peter wakes up!
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Although quite a few years old now we have watched this film loads of times - my wife and daughter love it and watch it several times a year. Well acted - great storyline and funny
John Turteltaub's While You Were Sleeping is a modern romantic comedy that despite its outrageous fairytale plot is surprisingly realistic and touching. This is mainly down to Sandra Bullock's performance as the shy kooky heroine Lucy Moderatz, a captivating tollbooth clerk, who's alone in the world. Every day she sees the same people pass by her to catch the train and one particular man always captures her attention. Lucy has been smitten with Peter Callaghan, a city lawyer since she first saw him, but so far they've never even spoken. On Christmas day, the handsome Peter falls onto the rails and Lucy saves his life. After a number of mix-ups Peter's family is misguided into thinking that Lucy is Peter's fiancée and she doesn't have the heart to correct them. She's warmly adopted into the family and they all fall in love with her hapless nature, but none more than Jack, Peter's brother.
Feel-good romantic comedies don't come much more breezy and captivating than this. Lucy's dilemma will draw you in and her longing for a family will steal your heart again and again! If that's not enough the chemistry between Lucy and Jack is electric and their mannerisms toward each will give you a warm fuzzy feeling.
Verdict
Despite being a little predictable, While You Were Sleeping is a fun, tender and spirited film with an unerring comic touch. It will have you close to tears one minute and laughing out loud the next - a truly classic romantic comedy!
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A lonely female subway worker falls for a man she's only seen at a distance. When she saves his life after an accident, she is mistaken for his fiancee...
Chicago subway worker Lucy (Sandra Bullock) is infatuated by businessman Peter (Peterg Gallagher), a commuter who regularly uses her station and who she only ever sees from a distance. One day, Peter is almost hit by a train, but Lucy manages to save him at the last moment; then, as she sits by his side while he lies unconscious in a hospital bed, his family arrive and mistake her for his new girlfriend. Happy to be welcomed into the home of her dream partner, Lucy tries to gather the strength to set the record straight, but the situation only becomes more complicated when she starts falling in love with Peter's brother Jack (Bill Pullman).
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