Merry Christmas everyone! On Christmas Day, we continue our Movie of the Day series with films that celebrate not only Christmas, but the week between Christmas and New Year's, as the holidays roll on through the end of the year. There are some good New Year's Eve movies to get to, but for today While You Were Sleeping is the perfect, old-fashioned romantic comedy that happens to take place on Christmas and then through the rest of the holiday season, including New Year's Eve. The adorable Sandra Bullock is at her most loveable here, as Lucy the lonely ticket taker at a Chicago tollbooth. In a mix-up requiring a little bit of sustained disbelief, when the man she rescues from a mugging fall into a coma, his family believes her to be his fiance and adopts her as one of them. But then of course, she falls for his older brother (Bill Pullman). It's a perfectly charming, wistful romance, carried by Sandra Bullock's innate likability and essential niceness- perfect for the holiday season.
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