11 Eye-Opening Facts About ‘While You Were Sleeping’ For Its 30th Anniversary

Has Sandra Bullock ever been more charming, more vulnerable, more relatable than she was in the 1995 sleeper (pun intended) hit While You Were Sleeping? Far be it from me, as a longtime Sandy B fan, to imply that she is ever anything less than charming — but there is something about her turn as sweet, lonely fare token collector Lucy Moderatz that tugs at the old heart strings. As the kids might say, it just hits different.

Maybe it hits different because the story happens at Christmas, at a time when Lucy has been pining after handsome commuter Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher) — and, as luck would have it, manages to save his life when he is nearly hit by a train.