

While You Were Sleeping
A story about love at second sight.
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $17M
- Box office
- $182.1M
- Language
- English
- chicago, illinois
- coma
- sibling relationship
- love of one's life
- holiday
- brother
- subway
- romcom
- man of one's dreams
- love
- hospital
- christmas
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereLos Angeles, California9 Apr 1995
- TheatricalPG21 Apr 1995
- PhysicalPGDVD4 Feb 1998
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG25 Aug 1995
AustraliaAU
- Theatrical4 May 1995
CanadaCA
- PhysicalDVD2 Oct 2015
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical24 Aug 1995
AustriaAT
- TVORF 112 Apr 1998
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1223 Jun 1995
ColombiaCO
- Theatrical15 Sept 1995
CzechiaCZ
- TheatricalU26 Oct 1995
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1111 Aug 1995
Faroe IslandsFO
- Theatrical22 Sept 1995
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1211 Aug 1995
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While You Were Sleeping was released on 21 April 1995.
Audience reviews
5- K7/10
Kamurai
9/21/2020
Really good watch, would watch again, and can recommend. This feels like a classic watch, like a movie that started a trope...but I can't think of a single other movie that did what this movie does. Sure there are movies about comas, amnesia, lying, but they don't do it in the same way, and I honestly believe it's because this movie did it so well that no one wants to risk copying it and do worse. This is also…
- R7/10
r96sk
5/6/2022
Insanely cheesy and overtly sentimental... yet, I kinda like 'While You Were Sleeping'. Sandra Bullock is probably the main reason for the latter, as she gives a near perfect performance for this sorta role. The rest of the cast are good too, from Bill Pullman to Peter Gallagher to Jason Bernard. The story is paced finely, it's really just the strong cheese that brings the rating down for me. Still: 7/10. It's …
- T7/10
The Movie Mob
1/2/2023
**While You Were Sleeping is about more than just romance. It’s about finding family and, in this case, an adorable but crazy and entertaining family.** While You Were Sleeping is a heartwarming romantic comedy with the lead falling in love with a quirky but sincere family as much as their charming son. The script isn’t perfect, with a couple of cliche and stereotypical rom-com moments, but the cast of goofy but n…
- F8/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
8/12/2023
**A good and really funny romantic comedy.** I don't consider myself a fan of romantic comedies, so I feel free to talk about them with complete dismay. And what I want to say about this romantic comedy is that it manages to be much better than we might expect at first glance. In fact, this film manages to associate an excellent lead actress with a good story, full of comic moments. It all starts with a platoni…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/1/2024
Sandra Bullock does almost all of the heaving lifting in this engaging, if slightly far-fetched love story. She works in the token booth at her local Chicago train station where every morning she sees that cashmere-coated "Peter" (Peter Gallagher). She's got a bit of a crush on him, but after he gets accosted by some muggers on the platform and knocked onto the track she is more concerned that he will end up getting …
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