Is While You Were Sleeping a Christmas movie?
WE all love a good festive flick over the yuletide season.
But over the years there has been some debate over whether While You Were Sleeping is a Christmas movie or not - well we have the answer.
Is While You Were Sleeping a Christmas movie?
There is much debate over whether While You were Sleeping is actually a Christmas movie.
This is because although the film is set at Christmas time, the film is about lead character Lucy (Sandra Bullock) pretending to be engaged to a guy in a coma.
However there are several reviews which point to it being a festive flick, and after looking at the evidence we agree.
This one from (written in 2021) reads: "This Sandra Bullock classic is indeed a Christmas movie.
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"First off, the whole plot is set into motion because Lucy Moderatz is forced to work on Christmas.
"Saving her wannabe crush from an oncoming train, but not saving him from the impending coma, she creates a Mistaken Identity situation when a nurse tells his family she’s his fiancée.
"Because Lucy is alone, she is convinced to spend Christmas with 'coma guy’s' charming family and falls in love with them…and potentially his charming brother.
"The production even gets into the vibe of Christmas: twinkle lights, upbeat background music, realistic cold breaths.
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"Combine those with the chemistry of the leads and you’ll evoke tears from even the hardest of hearts."
While wrote (in 2020): "The unexpected Christmas movie that we need the most is While You Were Sleeping.
"It's a story that opens right before Christmas and ends a day or two after New Year’s Eve—and yet it's rarely included in most holiday movie watch lists.
"It's an annual oversight that even bothers the film's director Jon Turteltaub.
"Twenty-five years ago this movie held up the reality of loneliness this time of year and magnified the most human of emotional needs through the lens of a perfect romantic comedy in a way that’s still relevant today.
"But—this year especially—it's time for WYWS to be widely and officially accepted into the canon of Christmas movie classics."
Who stars in While You Were Sleeping and what is it about?
The plot centres on lonely transit worker Lucy Eleanor Moderatz who saves her longtime crush, Peter, from the path of an oncoming train.
At the hospital, doctors report that he's in a coma, and a misplaced comment from Lucy causes Peter's family to assume that she is his fiancée.
When Lucy doesn't correct them, they take her into their home and confidence.
Things get even more complicated when she finds herself falling for Peter's sheepish brother, Jack.
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The film attracted a star cast, which included:
- Sandra Bullock as Lucy Eleanor Moderatz
- Bill Pullman as Jack Callaghan
- Peter Gallagher as Peter Callaghan
- Peter Boyle as Ox Callaghan
- Jack Warden as Saul Tuttle
- Glynis Johns as Elsie
- Micole Mercurio as Midge Callaghan
- Jason Bernard as Jerry Wallace
- Michael Rispoli as Joe Fusco, Jr.
- Ally Walker as Ashley Bartlett Bacon
- Monica Keena as Mary Callaghan