While You Were Sleeping Critic Reviews

This is a formula film, but it has the kind of good cheer and fine tuning that occasionally give slickness a good name.Read the full review

It's a feel-good deal you can take the whole family to, or even better, a date. And this almost cuddly film, built on a farfetched case of mistaken identity, delivers plenty of fun.Read the full review

It's a feel-good film, warm and good-hearted, and as it was heading for its happy ending, I was still a little astonished how much I was enjoying it.Read the full review

Director Jon Turteltaub has a smooth style suited to classic farce and knows just how to pace the material to accentuate the positive.Read the full review

Only when you look closer do you realize that While You Were Sleeping exhibits precious few genuine feelings. It's a movie cranked out by machine, about supposedly delightfully idiosyncratic characters who only do what they do because the highly structured plot requires it.Read the full review

The plot runs out of steam just past the one-hour mark and the charade, although necessary to the story, goes on for too long. The ending is, of course, the requisite happy one, but it seems a little anticlimactic.Read the full review

It's a movie about the warm feeling you get when you belong to a family, and, throughout, the thermostat is turned up high.Read the full review

Its attitude seems to be: You met her and liked her in "Speed," now get to know her better. But while it's easy to like her, liking the movie is another matter.Read the full review

A romantic comedy has to woo an audience into taking a chance on love. While You Were Sleeping is that kind of sneaky charmer, more riveting than ribbit-ing. [21 Apr 1995, Pg.01.D]Read the full review