MOVIES. . . "WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING"

"While You Were Sleeping" is a fairy tale starring Sandra Bullock as the princess, Peter Gallager as the sleeping prince and Bill Pullman as the man Bullock eventually discovers is her true love. Bullock plays a token taker on the Chicago El who, while admiring Gallager from afar, has never spoken to him. She saves Gallager's life in an accident that leaves him temporarily in a coma. His family, clustered around his bedside, mistakes Bullock for his fiance (a fiction she encourages) and we're off in a movie thatTIME movie reviewer Richard Schickelsays recaptures the true spirit of the best kind of modern fairy tale--classic romantic comedy."