1995 · romance · comedy
While You Were Sleeping
Directed by Jon Turteltaub1h 43m1995
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.
Our read: While You Were Sleeping (1995) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded romance · comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, steady, gentle romance / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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