Movies are a fun form of entertainment for the entire family. Watching movies with your family can be a great way to spend a rainy day. Going to movies is also a great way to beat the heat of summertime. The ideal summer fun location could be a combination movie theater, swimming pool, and ice cream parlor. In addition, maybe someday there will be a combination swimming pool and movie theater in order to beat the heat and humidity of summertime. Anyway, no matter where movies are seen whether in a movie theater on the big screen or in the comfort of your own home on your sofa; movies can and often do bring about many emotions within us. In other words, movies can be and often are extremely magical and memorable to those movie goers who see them. There are many different types of movies for people to choose from and to enjoy, hopefully. There are family films that seem to come out over the summer months and during Thanksgiving and Christmas. There are also romantic comedies, animated films, family films, dramas, suspense, action, and horror movies. Many people enjoy many different kinds of movies depending on what type of mood they are in on a given day. In other words, sometimes we are in need of a good cry, a good laugh, or a good scare. In addition, people who see themselves as romantics often love to spend the day watching many romantic comedies in a row. Romantic comedies often make movie goers laugh and cry. An example of a romantic comedy that makes movie goers both laugh and cry is Sleepless in Settle staring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Another wonderful romantic comedy is Notting Hill staring Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Sandra Bullock became a movie star when she stared in the romantic comedy While You Were Sleeping. Let’s take a closer look at this wonderful movie called While You Were Sleeping.

The plot centers around Sandra Bullock who plays Lucy, a lonely fare collector working in Chicago on the elevated railway, also called the El. The high point of everyday is selling a token to a handsome commuter, Peter Callaghan, on whom she has a secret crush. During the Christmas holidays, Lucy sees Peter being mugged and pushed on the railroad tracks and she rescues him from an oncoming train. Peter falls into a coma and Lucy goes with him to the hospital. At the hospital, she fantasizes out loud that she is going to marry Peter. A nurse misunderstands her and thinks she is Peter’s fiancée. Therefore, Lucy is allowed to see Peter and his family. At first, Lucy is too caught up in the madness and panic of the situation to tell the family the truth and after a while she is too embarrassed to tell the family the truth.

Lucy’s parents have died and she has very few friends; therefore, she comes to love the family and she can’t bring herself to hurt them by telling them the truth that Peter and she only meet that day on the tracks, so he doesn’t really know her at all. Everything is going well until Lucy meets Peter’s brother Jack who questions whether Lucy and Peter are engaged to be married and on top of everything else, while Jack and Lucy are spending time together, Jack starts having feelings for Lucy. Other problems arise when Peter wakes from the coma and can’t remember Lucy at all; however the family thinks that he will remember her once they spend time together. In addition, Peter is convinced by his godfather, Saul that Lucy must be the love of his life if he proposed to her. Therefore, Peter proposes to Lucy again and she says yes even though she has feelings for Jack.

On the day of the wedding, Lucy is still struggling with the lie and her feeling for Jack. However, she shows up at the church to marry Peter. However, she can’t go through with it and confesses the whole thing to the family and tells of her feelings for Jack. While the family talks, she leaves the church unsure of her future. The next day while she is taken tokens from everyone, she sees Jack and the family standing at her window with an engagement ring and a marriage proposal for Lucy. While You Were Sleeping ends with Lucy and Jack happily married in weeding attire on an El train. The tile of the movie comes from Peter asking Lucy when it was exactly that she fell in love with Jack; She answers,” While you were sleeping.” This romantic comedy is funny and heartwarming; plus it will not put movie goers to sleep.