Sandra Bullock She is one of the most popular Hollywood actresses of the last decades. The successes of ‘Demolition Man’ and, above all, ‘Speed (Maximum power)’ helped to finish launching her career, but she went with ‘While you were Sleeping’ when he really showed that he was a star who could lead a huge blockbuster. And now you also have the opportunity to (again) watch it for free in streaming for a limited time.
To be able to enjoy the film directed by Jon Turteltaub You only have to enter RTVE Play, where it will be available until January 13. If you miss the date, you will also find it on Disney+, but there you will have to go through the box to see it.
Released in 1995, ‘While You Were Sleeping’ tells the story of Lucy, a lonely young woman who works as a subway ticket clerk and who dreams of going out with a regular customer who one day has an accident. She jumps onto the tracks to save him and then a mix-up leads her family to believe that Lucy is her fiancée, though his brother has his doubts that is true.
This movie has two aspects. On the one hand, its most romantic component, which starts from a sufficiently peculiar premise to arouse the viewer’s curiosity. Added to this is Bullock’s charm and the good chemistry she shares with Bill Pullman so that in this way it may not be memorable but it is satisfactory.
Nevertheless, it is the most humorous layer that ends up raising ‘While you were sleeping’ above the vast majority of romantic comedies of the time, both for the peculiar neighbor of the protagonist and for the members of the family of the two brothers from which the romantic triangle is created.
In addition, the mixture of both facets helps to provide the film with a joyous balance between the light and jovial with the emotional and dramatic, something to which many productions of this type aspire and a select minority get.