![]() ![]() There was no close-knit group of friends to dissect the behavior of crushes or possible partners or talk about her loneliness. Rom-coms were plentiful and the awkward heroine always emerged triumphant in the end, but Lucy was different. While nervously talking to my crush in a Friendly’s parking lot, he had leaned in and I reflexively stepped back, stumbling backwards off the curb and falling on my ass while somehow still calmly asking him, “have you read Jurassic Park? It’s a really good book.” Needless to say I was at the beginning of embarking on my own romantic fantasies, where I’d imagine all sorts of scenarios of being smooth and casual and everything may not be perfect, but I wouldn’t fall off a curb shouting about the written works of Michael Crichton. The first time I saw this movie I had barely experienced a first kiss. She's all alone in the world, but she fantasizes about the perfect relationship, and a life of adventure as she takes tokens all day as a transit worker. Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, Sandra Bullock’s character in While You Were Sleeping, is introduced as a dreamer, a romantic. But-this year especially-it's time for WYWS to be widely and officially accepted into the canon of Christmas movie classics. Twenty-five years ago this movie held up the reality of loneliness this time of year and magnified the most human of emotional needs through the lens of a perfect romantic comedy in a way that’s still relevant today. And its commentary on needing family and love around the holidays strikes a particular chord in the age of COVID. While You Were Sleeping is gentle, it’s funny, there’s no blood and gore (minus the whole losing a testicle incident but we don’t actually SEE it so it’s fine). It's an annual oversight that even bothers the film's director Jon Turteltaub. It's a story that opens right before Christmas and ends a day or two after New Year’s Eve-and yet it's rarely included in most holiday movie watch lists. Patrick Swayze Was the First Man I Ever Lovedīut this year, the unexpected Christmas movie that we need the most is While You Were Sleeping. ![]()
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