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Article: While You Were Sleeping.
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- June 2, 1995
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Finally, there is a probable summer hit, "While You Were Sleeping" (Hollywood Pictures), that succeeds in dusting Chicago and elevated trains with magic. It's the best of recent attempts at romantic comedy, a genre that not only needs a witty screenplay but is allergic to mindless sexual permissiveness. After all, one of the main reasons even my mother was rooting for Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable to get together in "It Happened One Night" is that the movie kept them apart for 90 minutes. "While You Were Sleeping" has the advantage of its unrealistic premise: Jack Callahan (Bill Pullman) thinks Lucy (delightfully played by Sandra Bullock as a mistake-prone token ...
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Article: `Sleeping': No Reason to Stir
The Washington Post;
April 21, 1995 ;
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... ... romantic comedy, "Sleeping" plays its romantic ... handsome commuter Peter (Peter Gallagher ... it's time for Peter to come out of his ... satisfying finale, "Sleeping" is riddled with ... is pregnant with Peter's child. The startled ... WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING (PG) -- Contains ...
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