In 1995 Sandra Bullock starred in the hopelessly romantic comedy, “While You Were Sleeping.” Bullock plays a Chicago Transit token taker who is smitten with Peter Callaghan, a handsome commuter, though they are strangers. On Christmas Day, she rescues Peter from the oncoming Chicago “L” train after muggers push him onto the tracks. She accompanies the comatose Peter to the hospital, where a nurse overhears her musing aloud, “I was going to marry him.” Misinterpreting, the nurse tells his family that she is his fiancée. While Peter remains comatose an entire movie plays out. Continue reading
While we were sleeping
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It is an old story that still amuses me