Don’t let the "chick flick’ idea scare you away from this movie. While You Were Sleeping is cute, outrageously funny, heartwarming and a must see for all audiences.
While You Were Sleeping starts with a lonely woman, Lucy, (Sandra Bullock) hard at work in a tollbooth, fantasying about marrying the handsome young men passing through her tollbooth. By chance, one of the men is mugged and knocked unconscious on the train tracks. She saves him, and the confusion starts. With a lot of twist and turns the family come to believe that Lucy and their unconscious son are engaged. They welcome the family starved woman, with open arms. Lucy can not resist their charm and is sucked into the vortex of this wild and crazy family. She then starts to fall in love with he
The characters in this movie are so believable you will feel they are your best friends by the end. Lucy has lost her dad; he was her only family. She has friends, but around the holidays (the setting of this movie) is when you want to be part of a family the most. The scene when she is decorating a Christmas tree, with only her cat for company, helps you understand how someone could be pulled into a loving family, even under false pretenses. Jack the brother, who Lucy falls for, is very believable as a down to earth guy who just wants to build furniture for a living. He is shy and reserved, but jealous enough to try and win Lucy by playing cards with his brother, who is in a coma. This movie is full of zany characters, from the slime ball neighbor of Lucy that hits on her, to the gull
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