While You Were Sleeping
Movie • 1995 • Comedy
ReportA 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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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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parents died
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Peter's cat is left unattended for a few days before anyone realizes it needs to be fed. The cat is fine.
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But main character’s downstairs neighbour is hanging around a suspicious amount and feels a bit stalkery
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Yup entire family tells a guy who just woke up from a coma that he is engaged to a girl he never talked to - they tell him he just has amnesia!
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But family drinks pretty strong egg nog for Christmas, and granma says “I don’t drink anymore - I don’t drink any less either!”
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Are animals abused?
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But a character admits he once threw rocks after a squirrel’s nest so he could pretend to save the squirrels afterwards
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There is a scene where a character finds a can of cat food among the items of a coma patient after it has been a couple days, she goes to his apartment with the food and feeds the cat, it is alive and well
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But a mom gropes her son’s testicle while he is in a coma - to check whether he has one or two, so not sexual, buy definitely crossing a boundary
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We hear that a character had a testicle removed in the past following an accident
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Does a head get squashed?
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But guy hits his head when he falls
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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We are told that a guy had a testicle pierced by a pencil, and his mother checks to see if it’s true
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Does someone become unconscious?
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man falls and is in a coma.
**mild spoiler**
he comes out of it fine
**mild spoiler**
he comes out of it fine
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Does someone break a bone?
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A character is attacked and thrown onto train tracks, he falls into a coma but no bones are broken
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a man is pushed onto subway tracks but he is rescued (he spends most of the movie in a coma)
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The main character talks about her deceased father many times, and while we never see him die, his death is a major part of her character.
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Does someone cheat?
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Lucy is not in a relationship with neither Jack nor Peter, so she does not cheat.
Peter is engaged to someone when he proposes to Lucy, but he has been tricked into thinking he has amnesia, so he cannot really be considered cheating either
Peter is engaged to someone when he proposes to Lucy, but he has been tricked into thinking he has amnesia, so he cannot really be considered cheating either
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Main character’s father died from cancer a year prior to the beginning of the film
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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As part of a stupid fat joke - “if you fit into my pants I will kill myself”
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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rumour she was pregnant.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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It’s heavily indicated that a guy hitting on our main character is mentally challenged - “he thinks he invented aluminum foil, he’s delusional”
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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A particularly ridiculous male character wants to try main characters high heeled shoes - and it’s supposed to make him more ridiculously
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Only straight people in this movie
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Are there fat jokes?
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Woman tells her male love interest “if you can fit into my pants I will kill myself”.
Man lies and says he likes “chubby blondes” because he won’t admit to liking mail character, who is a thin brunette - the line is said in a way that presupposes liking chubby blondes is absurd
Man lies and says he likes “chubby blondes” because he won’t admit to liking mail character, who is a thin brunette - the line is said in a way that presupposes liking chubby blondes is absurd
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But a mom gropes her grown son’s testicle while he is in a coma to check whether he truly only has one. So not sexual, but definitely out of line
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Nothing beyond a kiss!
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Sickness
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Is someone hit by a car?
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A man is pushed onto the railroad tracks but he is saved by the main character, he falls into a coma and she is fine
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