The Washington Post, April 21st, 1995
SANDRA BULLOCK, last seen hurtling toward stardom in "Speed," decelerates in "While You Were Sleeping." A wobbly romantic comedy, "Sleeping" plays its romantic elements just right, but badly botches the comedy. Bullock plays Lucy, a Chicago Transit Authority token clerk. Lucy has a great big crush on handsome commuter Peter (Peter Gallagher), who daily passes her booth without making eye contact. One morning, Peter gets mugged and tumbles unconscious from the train platform. Lucy leaps down and rolls him off the tracks, saving his life, and then follows his ambulance to the hospital. "That's t...
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