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While You Were Sleeping (1995) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Julia Roberts Turned Down The Role of Lucy Moderatz.
- Sandra Bullock Was The First Cast Member to join.
- That Paperboy Fail only Looks Funny.
- The First Scene Shot For The Film Didn’T Involve The Callaghans at all.
- Ben Folds References The Film in His Song “From above.”
- Only A Few of The Hospital Scenes Were Filmed at An Actual Hospital.
- The Callaghans’ House Is Real.
- The First Version of The Film Reversed The roles.
- The Chicago Transit Authority Granted The Film Special Access.
- The Train Scenes Alone Took Four Weekend shoots.
Roberts was already flying high from the major success of Pretty Woman five years earlier, so the actress seemed like a solid pick for another charming romantic comedy about two very different people brought together by unexpected circumstances. Fortunately for Bullock, she turned down the role.
Part of Bullock’s appeal to the production team? A little film she had done earlier for Roger Birnbaum, a former Fox president who produced While You Were Sleeping, called Love Potion #9, which helped assure Birnbaum she was ready for the kind of larger part that the film required from her.
The kid who played the paperboy in the film wasn’t meant to biff his paper toss so spectacularly; his fall was an accident and he actually broke his wrist while doing it.
It’s actually the scene that puts everything in motion: Lucy’s boss Jerry (Jason Bernard) asking her to work on Christmas Day. The scene was shot along the banks of the Chicago River, complete with hot dog vendor.
The song chronicles a long string of missed connections between two unnamed people who are destined to be together. One of those misses? A 6:30 screening of While You Were Sleeping (in Folds’ created lore, the female half of the story sat just behind the male at the theater, neither one of them the wiser).
The film’s hospital scenes were set at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (a real hospital in Chicago), but the necessary sets were rebuilt for ease of filming; the movie shot almost three weeks of just hospital-set bits alone.
Unlike the hospital, every scene that takes place in the Callaghan family abode was lensed on location at a charming turn-of-the-century housein suburban La Grange, Illinois.
Sullivan and Lebow’s original vision for the film involved a man—a New York City fish salesman, for some reason—who spots a lovely Scandinavian woman in the streets. Before he can introduce himself, she is hit by a newspaper truck and ends up in a coma. The sexes were eventually reversed (and the inciting accident was obviously changed) when it was...
So much of While You Were Sleeping takes place at Lucy’s place of employment—a Chicago train station—that the film required not only the use of the station and its tracks, but use of them during daylight hours(as Lucy spies Peter when he’s on his way to work in the mornings). Although the CTA had never shut down one of their stations for a film pro...
The CTA shut down the Randolph and Wabash station four weekends in a row for filming. In order to film the scene where Lucy jumps down on to the tracks to save Peter, they moved to the Sedgewick station for just one day, which conveniently enough includes one section of rail without any live currents, which was much safer for everyone involved!
While You Were Sleeping: Directed by Jon Turteltaub. With Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle. A hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority ticket booth operator is mistaken for the fiancée of a comatose patient.
While You Were Sleeping - Full Cast & Crew. A lonely turnstile clerk saves a man who has fallen onto the tracks, then poses as the comatose man's fiancée to gain access to his condition.
- Jon Turteltaub
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.
While You Were Sleeping is a 1995 American romantic comedy film directed by Jon Turteltaub and written by Daniel G. Sullivan and Fredric Lebow.
Travolta's credits include performances in films such as Hangman's Curse with David Keith, Catch Me If You Can with Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, National Security with Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn, High Fidelity with John Cusack and Jack Black, and While You Were Sleeping with Sandra Bullock and Bill Pullman.
