| While You Were Sleeping | | Cast : | Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher | | Director : | Jon Turteltaub | | Studio : | Hollywood Home Video | | Format : | Color, Dolby, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | April 21, 1995 | | DVD Released Date : | January 04, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 28, 2005 | | Summary | While You Were Sleeping | Content
 | A thoroughly entertaining, funny, love story. Sandra Bullock is great as always and Bill Pullman is completely charming. |
| Rating | | | Date | July 19, 2005 | | Summary | While You Were Sleeping | Content
| This is one of my favorite movies, recommend it to all!! |
| Rating | | | Date | June 15, 2005 | | Summary | A delightfully sweet, slow-motion, ten-car pile-up. | Content
| And no, I'm not completely averse to "chick flicks". Stupid premise, sloppy pacing, jaw-droppingly inept dialogue, no sign of intelligent life here. Why should I care? I saw it on a first- and last - date with someone so amazing looking that she would have had to commit an unspeakably offensive act in order to cool my ardor. Taking a shine to this movie was that act.
None other than Albert Brooks seconds that emotion: "Toward the last six months before I met my wife, I sort of gave up on even attempting mental communication with new women. I went with this one woman to see While You Were Sleeping-that movie with Sandra Bullock. In the car on the way home, she said to me, 'I think that's the funniest movie I've ever seen.' And I really debated whether just to drive off Mulholland and kill ourselves right then or to drop her off first and take eight sleeping pills."
Also worth noting while collating reasons to shun this film: Sandra Bullock always looks vaguely like she needs a bath.
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| Rating | | | Date | April 21, 2005 | | Summary | A truly charming romantic comedy... | Content
| One of the surprise films of 1995, While You Were Sleeping is one of the top romantic comedies of the decade. Sandra Bullock experiences her breakout role as the loveable lead character, and Bill Pullman makes a name for himself a year before the release of Independence Day (where he performed masterfully as the president). Overall, While You Were Sleeping is a classic feel-good love story with enough comedy and laughs to avoid earning the designation of a soppy chick flick.
Sandra Bullock plays the role of Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, a Chicago subway ticket-taker who whittles away the hours of her life trapped inside a ticket booth along the tracks. Each day, Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher) passes by in his daily commute to work. Lucy has managed to develop a crush on the man (whose name she doesn't even know), fantasizing about their life together, but she never says a word about it. When Christmas Eve arrives, she witnesses a gang of thugs beat up Peter and leave him on the tracks. Risking her own life, Lucy saves Peter from an oncoming train and summons medical help.
While in the hospital, she tells the nurse she's the man's fiancée, and when Peter's family shows up at the hospital, the nurse relays the same information to them. Shocked that Peter had a fiancée they knew nothing about, they nonetheless take Lucy under their wing. Afraid to reveal the truth, Lucy goes along with the lie while Peter remains in a coma. When Peter wakes up, he doesn't remember Lucy, and she continues the lie - telling him he suffers from amnesia. Meanwhile, Peter's brother Jack (Bill Pullman) comes to know Lucy intimately. He has his suspicions about her, but becomes attracted to her himself. When the truth comes out, Lucy will have to answer for her actions...
In While You Were Sleeping, a bona fide star is born in actress Sandra Bullock. Although her performance in Love Potion No. 9 is just as brilliant, the film itself didn't enjoy the commercial success necessary to propel her stardom. In While You Were Sleeping, Bullock gets the recognition she deserves. Her sweet, shy demeanor, coupled with a talent for slapstick comedy, makes her character quite relatable and easy to like. Bullock has a great feel for delivering her lines, and it's obvious in this picture.
With a classic 'character trapped in a lie' plotline, While You Were Sleeping relies upon the onscreen relationship between actress Sandra Bullock and actor Bill Pullman. The two pull it off well, and the audience takes an instant liking to all the characters involved. In the end, the viewer has to root for the two to get together, and when an audience becomes emotionally involved in the outcome of a film, then you've got a definite hit on your hands. While You Were Sleeping is one of those movies, and that's why it earns its designation as a must-see film...
The DVD Report |
| Rating | | | Date | April 10, 2005 | | Summary | While You Were Sleeping Actually Keeps You Awake | Content
| I go into all movies with an open mind. I must admit that I have not been too impressed with these romantic movies of late (Notting Hill for example).....However, I was pleasantly suprised with this movie. The plot of this movie is plausible (slightly), but what made the movie for me was Sandra Bullock's performance (I haven't seen her in anything else). She was good as this kind of shy, goofy self conscious young woman working in the subway/train ticket booth. It is worth seeing and would recommend it. Bill Pullman is okay. Bullock steals it with her expressions and the situations she gets herself into. The movie is light and is something you might watch on a Sunday afternoon with your wife or girlfriend. My wife loves these kind of movies and I'm kind of blaze because of the formulas that many of these kinds of movies fall into. This movie does fall into the formula, but it is better than most of this genre. Its a good movie, go out and rent it and if you love it, buy it because it has been marked down as many movies these days have been. Take a look and enjoy. 3 Stars In Comparison to all movies (Godfather etc...) but it would be a 4 star movie in comparison to all other romantic/comedy movies. |
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