Saturday, December 1, 2012

CLASSIC SEASONAL MOVIE PICK  #7 ~  "While You Were Sleeping"

One of the best romantic comedies of the season, the occurrences of the movie takes place at Christmastime and throughout the weeks leading up to New Years...set in Chicago in the dead of winter, it has all the earmarks of a modern day Cinderella story...only, Lucy is the heroine of her own experience, as she saves her real life fantasy, Prince Charming, only to find out as he lays in a deep sleep, that she is really falling for his brother and his entire kooky, delightful family...it makes you laugh, smile, cry,  warms your heart and touches every romantic bone in your body...I love settling in for a cold winters night, curling up with a cup of gourmet hot chocolate, a big bowl of popcorn with my kitty purring in my lap for the one millionth and two viewing of  "While You Were Sleeping"

"If you don't mind a heavy dose of schmaltz and sentiment, this romantic comedy has a gentle way of seducing you with its charms. While You Were Sleeping was the first starring role for Sandra Bullock after her blockbuster success in Speed.  She plays Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, a Chicago Transit tollbooth clerk who's hopelessly smitten with a daily commuter, Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher). She saves the object of her affection from certain death after he's mugged and falls onto the train tracks. While Peter is in a coma, she lets his family believe that she is his fiancĂ©e, and surprisingly finds herself drawn to his brother (Bill Pullman), for whom the attraction is definitely mutual. How Lucy gets out of this amorous predicament is what makes this pleasant movie less predictable than its familiar ingredients would initially indicate. It's feel-good fluff, with characters and performances that keep you smiling through throughout the seemingly drippy plot mechanics." --Jeff Shannon

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