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FilmPG1995
While You Were Sleeping
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
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. From TMDB
252 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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While You Were Sleeping is a 1995 romance comedy film, directed by Jon Turteltaub, starring Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman and Peter Gallagher.
- 220 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
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60 of 252 · most liked firstOk, you know why I don’t like Gavin Newsom? You know how in While You Were Sleeping, Peter Gallagher’s family all talks about how he rescued a nest of baby birds as a kid, and later he admits he knocked their nest out of the tree with a rock, then made sure everyone saw him rescue it? That’s Gavin.
neutral · AI labelView post →WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING: A federal judge in New York barred Elon Musk and other allies outside the Treasury Department from accessing any sensitive payment records — and ordered any who have received such info to destroy it — until at least Feb. 14. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
neutral · AI labelView post →I am feeling deeply sad and lonely but I have found a temporary solution, and it’s Peter Gallagher’s eyebrows and Bill Pullman’s irrepressible charm. (I am watching While You Were Sleeping again.)
positive · AI labelView post →Our Xmas movie tonight was WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (seen it b4). Thoughts: -Frighteningly plausible. We’ve seen so many folks tell white lies that explode out of control. -Sandra Bullock at the height of her powers. -Is Bill Pullman actually attractive? -Lit better than every Netflix original series
positive · AI labelView post →Today in the December Comfort Watches: While You Were Sleeping, which is a love story, just not the one you might think it is -- and that's what makes it so revisitable. whatever.scalzi.com/2023/12/04/t...
neutral · AI labelView post →This is just a friendly reminder that WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (1995) is one of the great modern Christmas adjacent romantic comedies.
positive · AI labelView post →Introducing my little brother to While You Were Sleeping
neutral · AI labelView post →I think I could get away with a While You Were Sleeping.
neutral · AI labelView post →#RandomMovieGIF While You Were Sleeping (1995)
neutral · AI labelView post →Sloth watched While You Were Sleeping with me :D
neutral · AI labelView post →While You Were Sleeping (1995) is a top tier Christmas movie. And Chicago movie. And romcom.
positive · AI labelView post →#RandomMovieGIF While You Were Sleeping (1995)
neutral · AI labelView post →While You Were Sleeping is a perfect movie
positive · AI labelView post →#RandomMovieGIF While You Were Sleeping (1995)
neutral · AI labelView post →a sample of my movie taste horror: The Shining comedy: Hot Fuzz thriller: Sinners action: Robocop drama: Dead Poets Society romcom: While You Were Sleeping animated: Treasure Planet movie overall: The Thing
positive · AI labelView post →Also, realism =/= believability. WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING is utter nonsense from a realism standpoint but everyone in that movie sold it as believable. People who go on about realism in a rom-com probably refuse to clap to save Tinkerbell.
positive · AI labelView post →Carefully explaining to the 4th grader that even though While You Were Sleeping is not a kids movie, listing it as While You Were Sleeping (adult movie) on her get to know you worksheet is also not strictly accurate
neutral · AI labelView post →(sees the train tracks rescue in WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING) 1990s movies were full of people tied to the tracks!
neutral · AI labelView post →Listen to me talk about why WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING is my favorite, and in my opinion one of the best, Chicago movies (I also gave a shout out to the @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social’s cameo in THE VOW lmao) and @812filmreviews.com talk about WIDOWS. Full convo as a podcast will post tomorrow.
positive · AI labelView post →In the movie theater watching a trailer while waiting for Wicked to start Me: The movie they're showing a trailer for is based off of an older movie called While You Were Sleeping Partner: How do you know about some het romcom?? Me: ...there's a WangXian fan fic based on it...
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie While You Were Sleeping is so relatable to me cuz when I was in a coma some lady pretended to be my fiancé and then fell in love with my brother
neutral · AI labelView post →While You Were Sleeping is not on IMDB's list of Movies Where They Say the Name of the Movie in the Movie and this is the maddest I've ever been.
positive · AI labelView post →Name: Kaitlin Sign: Sagittarius Sexuality: Bisexual Hobbies: Gaming, reading, crocheting, doing Let's Plays for YouTube Fav Animal: Ball python/Crows Fav Pokemon: Ditto Fav Movie: While You Were Sleeping Fav Bands: The Happy Fits, Saint Motel, I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
neutral · AI labelView post →LAVENDER HILL 73k Schitt‘s Creek + While You Were Sleeping. A cozy MM Romantic Comedy. #R #Q #A #RF #Questpit
neutral · AI labelView post →WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING remains the top-tier holiday movie, because god, do you feel the aching loneliness and yearning for someone to belong to.
positive · AI labelView post →While You Were Sleeping is one of my top all time movies, and I consider it a Christmas movie.
positive · AI labelView post →While You Were Sleeping would be an absolutely perfect movie if I knew for sure Joe Jr. met a nice lady who made him happy.
positive · AI labelView post →Continuing my Christmas movie watches. Now watching: While You Were Sleeping
neutral · AI labelView post →When you get the cutest little surprise in the mail but you don’t know who to thank bc they had it shipped directly from the shop they ordered it from. Whoever it is surely knows about my deep and abiding love for While You Were Sleeping.
neutral · AI labelView post →While You Were Sleeping a great movie about how it’s okay to do demented stuff if you’re really sad and have exquisite voluminous sweaters (something I agree with, tbc)
positive · AI labelView post →While You Were Sleeping With Other People
neutral · AI labelView post →Merge two movie titles for an unsettling result: While You Were Sleeping With the Enemy
neutral · AI labelView post →While You Were Sleeping is clearly the superior Chicago Christmas movie. Unlike Home Alone… -Transit plays a major role, -Lots and lots of great architecture shots, -The hero does not engage in multiple potentially deadly assaults, -It did not have a sequel with Trump.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching While You Were Sleeping. Extremely good movie IMO.
positive · AI labelView post →my family always opened gifts on christmas eve, so tonight in lieu of gifts, i’m treating myself to an edible and movies, and i think i’ll start with something that matches the vibe: While You Were Sleeping
neutral · AI labelView post →I find it really hilarious that I claim to be super meh on fake relationships as a trope and yet one of my all time favorite romances EVER is Forever Your Rogue by Erin Langston and my all time favorite romcom movie is While You Were Sleeping. I am nothing if not consistent about my inconsistencies.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm noticing a LOT of RomCom titles just straight up work as horror titles. • While You Were Sleeping • Two Can Play That Game • 40 Days and 40 Nights • Never Been Kissed • What Happens in Vegas • Six Days Seven Nights • Because I Said So
neutral · AI labelView post →CR: 📚: AMELIA WAXLER REGRETS EVERYTHING. I loved Zipps’s sapphic homage to While You Were Sleeping, and I’m excited to see what she does with sapphic Sliding Doors! 🎧: EAT THE ONES YOU LOVE, sapphic horror with an evil sentient orchid, lol #booksky
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (1995) Dir. Jon Turtletaub #filmsky #sandrabullock #rewatch jeez I forgot how excellent this movie soundtrack is too 🎶🎵🥰🎬🎞️🍿
positive · AI labelView post →15. Romantic Movie Recs: 💖 Bridget Jones's Diary 💖 10 Things I Hate About You 💖 13 Going on 30 💖 While You Were Sleeping 💖 Ever After 💖 The Cutting Edge 💖 Chasing Liberty #FantasyIndiesFebruary
neutral · AI labelView post →While You Were Sleeping. My favorite Christmas movie.
positive · AI labelView post →In loving memory of the great Glynis Johns, Tony-winning & Oscar-nominated British actress, singer, and dancer, who was #BOTD on 10/5/1923 and passed away at 100 on 1/4/2024. Famous for 49TH PARALLEL, THE SUNDOWNERS, MARY POPPINS, WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING, GLYNIS, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, and more.
neutral · AI labelView post →BREAKING: While You Were Sleeping, Trump Gutted His Own Russia Sanctions Law At Putin’s Direction deanblundell.substack.com/p/breaking-w...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching While You Were Sleeping, which I'd never seen, and which is not exactly dumb, but was a perfect choice--a sweet, old-fashioned Christmas movie.
positive · AI labelView post →My favourite movie is ‘While You Were Sleeping’ with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman from 1995. It’s light and funny and the casting is perfection. You can’t help but find the family endearing. Sometimes you just need a feel-good movie to escape from the current insanity.
positive · AI labelView post →He would get these far-off looks in his eyes, and he would say, Life doesn't always turn out the way you plan. I just wish I'd realized at the time, he was talking about my life. ~ While You Were Sleeping
neutral · AI labelView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge Day 1 - hospital in a movie While You Were Sleeping #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →Kinda wanna watch a Sandra Bullock movie, like 'While You Were Sleeping', just to feel something... warm and fuzzy?
neutral · AI labelView post →You know who doesn’t get enough love for his role in While You Were Sleeping? Michael Rispoli, the guy who plays Joe Jr. He absolutely nails the fine line between loveable and lech. The movie wouldn’t be the same without him.
neutral · AI labelView post →I am watching While You Were Sleeping for the first time in many, many years and this is a horror movie! Sandra in her villain era, good for her.
negative · AI labelView post →“While You Were Sleeping” is a low-key awesome holiday 🎄🎅🏼movie (1990s Chicago setting is a huge plus obviously)
positive · AI labelView post →There are too many! But if I had to pick one, it's probably from The Princess Bride, Star Wars, Raiders, While You Were Sleeping, The Pirate Movie, When Harry Met Sally, Aliens, Young Frankenstein, or Muppet Christmas Carol.
neutral · AI labelView post →#HATM fam, am just floating around here liking everyone’s posts, but not watching tonight’s spooky movie. Needed a comfort movie tonight, so I’m curled up with my blanket, the fam, & watching “While You Were Sleeping” instead.
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with One book 📚 — Corduroy One movie 🎥 — While You Were Sleeping One album 💿 — Spiceworld One tv show 📺 — Star Trek: Discovery
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neutral · AI labelView post →Just watched While You Were Sleeping, I love Xmas movie season 🍿🎄
positive · AI labelView post →My bday episode of Lexx Education is now out on our patreon page! Every year for each of our birthdays we get a treat to choose our favourite subject to discuss and this year for my 40th I chose my favourite film - the 1995 classic Rom Com "While You Were Sleeping". www.patreon.com/lexxeducatio...
neutral · AI labelView post →15 best movies; don't think about it too hard! (not in order) ADDAMS FAMILY Independence Day Batman Brave Neverending Story The Dark Crystal Who Framed Roger Rabbit Superman Return to Oz Treasure Planet The Muppet Movie When Harry Met Sally While You Were Sleeping The Craft Twister
neutral · AI labelView post →Bill Pullman - 📽️ While You Were Sleeping (Jon Turteltaub, 1995) This is slowly becoming a more remembered Christmas movie. It’s obvious that Sandra Bullock is so good she saves this somewhat deranged premise. But Pullman is her comedy, drama, and charm equal with his trademark electric chemistry.
neutral · AI labelView post →Kids are in bed, we’re going to wrap presents and watch While You Were Sleeping, another flawless 90s Chicagoland Christmas movie
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