"Do you believe in love at first sight? Nah, I betcha don't, you're probably too sensible for that. Or have you ever, like, seen somebody? And you knew that, if only that person *really* knew you, they would, well, they would of course dump the perfect model that they were with, and realize that YOU were the one that they wanted to, just, grow old with. Have you ever fallen in love with someone you haven't even talked to? Have you ever been so alone you spend the night confusing a man in a coma?"

~While You Were Sleeping~

This is one of my personal fave Romantic Comedies. The story line is romantic and funny, and original!

The story centers around Lucy (Sandra Bullock), who is a very sweet, very lonely little lady who works as a cashier at the train station. She's in love with a sophisticated businessman who she only sees in passing every morning as he passes through to go to work. As Lucy's working the Christmas Eve shift (because she's the 'only one without family') he passes through again, but this time she witnesses him being mugged, and watches as he is thrown on to the railway tracks and knocked unconscious.

Lucy saves her Prince's life and later goes to see how he is doing at the hospital. A *huge* mix up occurs and his entire family winds up thinking that Lucy is his fiancé - a scenario only alive in her mind - until now! After some advice from certain individuals in the know, she decides to continue the facade as her presence is a light of hope for the victim's family, who are distraught as he is *still* in a coma.

Enter Jack - the skeptical brother who seems to be desperately trying to prove that something is strange about the situation - but is he trying to prove it for the family's sake or for his own? As he said while playing cards with his 'sleeping' brother "I've never been jealous of anything you've had - until now."

As Jack and Lucy spend more and more time with each other it is obvious to both of them who the other wants to be with, however, 'cheating on a vegetable' is unacceptable and so their feelings are never spoken of - until Lucy's wedding to Jack's brother....

So - I skipped ahead of myself again, but I don't want to give away the story. This movie is ultra sweet, romantic and just *the best*. Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman make the cutest couple, and for an excellent night in with a laugh, perhaps a tear, but a definite 'happy feel good' ending - this is *the* movie to see.

Does it or doesn't it??? Watch & find out!

Lucy: "You don't have to walk me home."

Jack: "You block the wind."

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