While You Were Sleeping
A story about love at second sight.
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them.Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.
- Director
- Jon Turteltaub
- Worldwide
- $182M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
While You Were Sleeping returned 10.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $17M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $182M
- Release date
- Apr 21, 1995
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- MPAA rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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