While You Were Sleeping by Fredric Lebow

While You Were Sleeping by Fredric Lebow

For some reason, this was an appreciated comedy, with a Metascore of 67, an unexplainable- if one is mean, or is it fair? - Golden Globe nomination for Sandra Bullock.

She is the protagonist of this romantic comedy, wherein Lucy is a rather sad, unhappy personage until she has the chance of her life and saves a man called Peter.

The latter was attacked by some thieves near the tracks, at the station where Lucy works, even on Christmas.

As the criminals try to get valuables and push the man around, he falls on the tracks and loses conscience and it is left to the protagonist to intervene for that victim would die.

As she tries to bring him back to life, the train is coming and at the last moment she pulls and rolls with him right as the machinery speeds by.

Peter arrives at the hospital and the family is confused and thinks this is his fiancée and it would be a "fake story" that would be maintained for quite some time, because to reveal the truth would make all the large family miserable.

This is amusing to some extent, for the poor false fiancée evidently knows nothing about the unconscious man, even if she has a narrow escape when Jack enters the stage.

The latter is suspicious and asks a few questions to see if she is who she says, given that as a brother, he should have heard something about her...

Who is Peter's favorite out of the Three Stooges?

The protagonist says a name and it happens to be the right one

Everybody prefers him...is Jack's reply

However, the heroine has a formidable weapon in her armory, for she happened to come across some valuable, secret piece of information in the hospital.

When he heard that this is the fiancée, one of the colleagues of the unconscious patient asked if she is aware of the accident and if Peter had said that he was responsible.

And then told her how they had been playing basketball and he had a crayon or a pen in his pocket and as they collided, this became a weapon and hit Peter in a testicle.

The result is that the company man in a coma has only one and nobody in the family knows about it, except for...Lucy and this intimate knowledge convinces everyone.

Of course, they first need to verify it and nobody volunteers.

Finally, one of the older women - was it grandmother? - makes a joke...

He will have more room in his underwear...

Humorous?

Maybe

Nevertheless, this viewer was not thrilled