While You Were Sleeping

Item: While You Were Sleeping
Rating: 3
Author: Frank Showalter

1995 | United States | 103 min | More...

Reviewed Dec 19, 2020

Sandra Bullock plays a lonesome CTA worker who saves handsome stranger Peter Gallagher’s life. As he slumbers in a coma, she poses as his fiancée and falls for his brother, played by Bill Pullman. A forgettable romcom buoyed by the wintry Chicago photography and Bullock’s ample charm.

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