While You Were Sleeping
Ticket collecting romantic pretends to be engaged to an unconscious man but can’t fool his brother
- Director:Jon Turteltaub
- Genre:Comedy / Romance
- Runtime:104 minutes
Cast
Sandra Bullock : Lucy Eleanor Moderatz
Bill Pullman : Jack Callaghan
Peter Gallagher : Peter Callaghan
Peter Boyle : Ox Callaghan
Jack Warden : Saul
Lucy Moderatz (Bullock) is a lonely fare collector on the Chicago elevated railway who has a secret crush on a handsome commuter named Peter Callaghan (Gallagher). On Christmas day, Lucy rescues Peter from an oncoming train after a mugger pushes him onto the tracks. Peter falls into a coma, and Lucy accompanies him to the hospital, where a nurse overhears her fantasizing aloud, “I was going to marry him.” Misinterpreting her, the nurse tells Peter’s family that Lucy is his fiancée. At first Lucy is too caught up in the panic to explain the truth, and afterward she is too embarrassed.
An orphan with few friends, Lucy becomes so captivated with the quirky Callaghans and their unconditional love for her that she cannot bring herself to hurt them by revealing that Peter doesn’t even know her. She spends a delayed Christmas with the family, then meets Peter’s younger brother Jack (Pullman), who has taken over his father’s furniture-moving business. Jack is suspicious of Lucy at first, then falls in love with her as they spend time together.
Then Peter wakes up. He has no memory of Lucy, but by this time the rest of his family has become so convinced of the engagement story that they assume Peter must have amnesia. Not knowing how to tell them the truth, Lucy confides in Peter and Jack’s godfather Saul (Warden), a kindly old man who believes that Lucy belongs in the family, but he can’t bring himself to tell them. Peter and Lucy spend time together, but she has already fallen in love with Jack. Saul persuades Peter to propose to Lucy “again”, and Lucy agrees despite her feelings for Jack. When Jack visits Lucy the day before the wedding, she gives him a chance to change her mind, asking him “Can you give me any reason why I shouldn’t marry your brother?”, but he sadly says no.
On the day of the wedding, just as the priest begins the ceremony, Lucy finally overcomes her embarrassment, admits everything, and tells the family she is in love with Jack rather than Peter. Peter’s real fiancée, who happens to be married, also arrives to stop the wedding. As the family argues, Lucy leaves, unsure of her future. Read more
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