Lucy’s life has been on hold for a long time, the lie about being Peter’s fiancé kickstarts her life in ways she would never imagine. The hot dog vendor that she always goes to doesn’t know her, she is constantly hit on by her neighbor in tasteless ways and she works a booth where no one sees her just the tokens she hands them. Everywhere you look Lucy is a woman who is unknown.
What makes While You Were Sleeping a surprise is that as a viewer you can get sucked in to rooting for Lucy’s success. You feel like Lucy is a good person who deserves the best because of Bullock’s work to bring a creative spin to a standard character of this genre. Bullock’s Lucy has told a lie about her relationship with Peter and the audience will root for her success because of Bullock’s performance. She exudes confidence on the screen, while also helping the audience have pity for her. Sandra Bullock makes this film shine above other generic romantic comedy films. Lucy is left wondering what her life will be like as she finishes her last day as a transit worker, when the Callaghan family shows up and Jack has a very important question to ask her. She confesses the truth at the altar and the wedding ends before it begins. Peter realizes that he has been given a second lease on life and asks Lucy to marry him.Ī hospital wedding is hastily planned, but the guilt of the lie Lucy has been living under is too much for her. Peter wakes up and though he can’t remember Lucy, the family feels it must be amnesia, which the doctor sort of agrees with. As Jack spends his time looking to poke holes in Lucy’s story, he and Lucy develop an attraction for each other. When Peter’s brother Jack, played by Bill Pullman, comes home and meets Lucy, he doubts the story and continues to look for the truth. Her mother had been dead since she was little, and her father passed away a year ago. From being alone to sitting by the fire in the Callaghan home with a gift wrapped just for her, Lucy has found something that she has longed for, a family. At the hospital, mistakes are made as Peter is in a coma, and before Lucy can clear up the misunderstanding, Peter’s family, the Callaghan’s, believe she is Peter’s fiancée and they adopt her willingly into their family. Lucy rushes to save him from an oncoming train, and her life will never be the same. One day Peter is attacked on the train platform and is knocked unconscious on the tracks. Lucy has a crush on a regular commuter named Peter, played by Peter Gallagher, but struggles to say hello. Every day she sits in her booth offering tokens to transit riders, and dreams about a better life. Lucy, played by Sandra Bullock, is a lonely transit worker in Chicago. Speed brought Sandra Bullock attention, While You Were Sleeping made her a star.
Critics would praise her work as the lovelorn star of While You Were Sleeping, and box office receipts would propel the film to blockbuster status. A year after the surprise success of Speed, Sandra Bullock was a fresh face on the Hollywood scene. Touchstone’s sister studio, Hollywood Pictures, wasn’t sure how successful their 1995 romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping would be.
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