While You Were Sleeping (1995)
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.
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"While You Were Sleeping" is a sentimental successor to "Sleepless In Seattle," and so much like the popular Nora Ephron picture that a more suitable title would have been "Comatose in Chicago."
Pullman, who in film after film (from “Sleepless in Seattle” to “Sommersby”) has played the guy who loses the girl, finally emerges as a full-fledged leading man here.
When -- and for that matter, why -- did Sleepless in Seattle become the sine qua non for any critical blurb for a romantic comedy?
While You Were Sleeping movie likely to appeal to the Sleepless in Seattle crowd, is a perfect example of this unoriginal-but-enjoyable type of film making.
If Sleepless in Seattle was designer romance, While You Were Sleeping is comfortable fit: loose-knit sweaters, lumberjack shirts, blue jeans and Timberland boots.
And these days they are inevitably compared to "Sleepless in Seattle," "When Harry Met Sally . . .
But first—in a vague echo of the quasi-classic comedy “While You Were Sleeping”—Emily will be put in a medically induced coma so her infection can be treated.
Like a weird, wonderful cross between “Amour” and “While You Were Sleeping,” this alternately hilarious and wrenching portrayal of commitment threads a whisper-thin needle between candor and cathartic laughs, gliding from grim hospital vigils one minute and into antic screwball family dynamics the next.
Normally, whether it be in a sitcom like The Honeymooners or Perfect Strangers or a movie such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town , The Shop Around the Corner , While You Were Sleeping , About a Boy , and numerous titles involving Shakespearean disguise or Pygmalion -inspired wagers, and even the fantastical varieties like Aladdin , Splash , any body-swap film, it’s a love interest who is most hurt by the secret or lie, after which the lying party must make it up to him or her to set things right.
Set It Up feels like a return to that era, when smaller-scale star vehicles like Picture Perfect , You’ve Got Mail , One Fine Day , and While You Were Sleeping were regular fixtures at the multiplex.
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Perhaps director Jon Turteltaub ( National Treasure , While You Were Sleeping ) and three screenwriters adapting Steve Alten's book figured that if a prehistoric shark could survive millions of years in the bottom of the ocean, Jonas could probably teleport himself.
The emphasis here is more on goofy action thrills than on gut-crunching scares and in that regards, it was a good idea to give the directorial reins to Jon Turteltaub , whose name may not symbolize horror filmmaking (depending on your personal stance towards “ While You Were Sleeping ,” of course) but whose “ National Treasure ” films also told stories that started off being completely preposterous and then got progressively sillier as they went on.
Director Jon Turtletaub (director of 90s gems like Cool Runnings, While You Were Sleeping and the National Treasure franchise) heralds the return of shark attack movies, a genre made famous by Steven Spielberg’s Jaws way back in 1975, with The Meg , featuring our favourite square-jawed, heroic star Jason Statham.
He is most notably known for the National Treasure films (and my favorite Sandra Bullock movie of all time While You Were Sleeping ).
“Meg” the film is directed by Jon Turteltaub, who made his bones helming “While You Were Sleeping” and the “National Treasure” movies.
Directed by Jon Turteltaub (Cool Runnings, While You Were Sleeping, and the National Treasure films), The Meg opens five years earlier, when Naval Captain Jonas Taylor (Statham), whose expertise is deep-sea diving and rescue, and his team are rescuing people from a submarine that appears (from the inside, at least) to be under attack from a giant…something.