While You Were Sleeping (film)

While You Were Sleeping (Original Title: While You Were Sleeping ) is an American comedy film from the year 1995 was directed by Jon Turteltaub, the screenplay by Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric LeBow. . The film starred Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman. The film was produced by Caravan Pictures and Hollywood Pictures.

Action

The orphaned Lucy Moderatz lives alone in Chicago since the death of her father. Because of this disease they once existed on their career plans and has since worked as a ticket seller at an elevated train station. The only bright spot in her lonely life is a beautiful stranger who at their switch triggers a ticket every morning and gives her romantic dreams food. On 1 Christmas Day Lucy will witness how her adored attacked and pushed onto the tracks. Courageously, she saves the unconscious Peter Callaghan life. When they want to inquire at the hospital after the comatose Peter, it is held by a thoughtless remark and an overzealous nurse there for his fiancée. In the effusive welcome by Peters messy lovable extended family go Lucy's explanations below.

Lucy enjoys the warmth of Callaghan and spends after some hesitation the Christmas with them. The next morning, she meets Peter's brother Jack know who seems to cherish the only doubt about Lucy's identity. However, Lucy manages to invalidate through a randomly experienced Information Jacks doubt. When Jack Lucy brings home one evening, the two tell their secret life dreams. So Lucy desperately wants to Florence, while Jack would like to leave the parental antiques and instead work as a furniture designer. A little later he is struggling through actually tell his father that desire. By Lucy's neighbor and an alleged pregnancy, there is further confusion with Jack, but eventually the two become aware independently that they are in love. Lucy gets more and more into the predicament.

Peter awakens from a coma, and of course can not remember Lucy, but what family and doctors are due to amnesia. Saul, an old friend of the family, long since Lucy's dilemma knows, makes sense to investigate the matter, but instead he convinced Peter, Lucy actually make an application. The overtaxed Lucy accepts this, but hopes to be a sign of Jack, while this may be difficult to accept the fact that Lucy is to be his brother's wife, but do not want to rush into the relationship of his brother. At the wedding ceremony in the hospital chapel Lucy can not remain silent any longer and confesses the astonished Callaghan that the engagement was a lie and she is actually in love with Jack. Shortly after storms Peters true partner with her estranged husband the chapel. In the chaos that followed Lucy pulls back, without waiting for a response.

Some time later, Lucy adopted at its last working day of her colleague in the ticket office. She is determined to take their lives once more into the hand. As she waits for the coins for a ticket, a ring falls instead into the changer. Prior to switch jack stands, surrounded by his family, which makes her in place a request. Happy takes Lucy. In the final scene, we see Lucy and Jack as they drive in wedding clothes on a train out of the station, while Sandra Bullock told in voiceover that life fortunately get lost do not always go to plan, that they traveled for their honeymoon to Florence and that they need Peter asked when she fell in love, had replied: While You Were Sleeping.

Background

Before filming began, Julia Roberts was for the role of Lucy Moderatz in conversation, she refused however.

Reviews

The film was described as not particularly outstanding, but heartwarming and funny.

Peter Stack called the film in the San Francisco Chronicle of 20 October 1995 as a " charming nougat " for romantics. He proves beyond doubt that Sandra Bullock could carry a movie.

Awards

Sandra Bullock was nominated for her role in the film awards Golden Globe, American Comedy Award and MTV Movie Award. The film won the Golden Screen and was nominated for the Casting Society of America Award. Randy Edelman won the BMI film music award.

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