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Mistaken for his fiancée, she starts to bond with his confused family while he unconsciously recuperates.

Since she’s only human, she’s desperately in love with Peter Gallagher’s Peter Callaghan, who she sees boarding every day, until he’s pushed onto the tracks and she saves him from death. She plays Lucy, a token taker working at a Chicago train station, living solo and pitied by her coworkers. And yet despite that confusing ickiness, Bullock is just so darn appealing in the movie that it all works. That’s the challenge Sandy has to overcome in While You Were Sleeping, Jon Turtletaub’s rom-com about a woman who pretends to be the wife of a man she crushed on from afar while he’s in a coma. It’s a test of a star’s mettle as to whether they can pull off a character who makes decisions that, on paper, can be pretty terrible. “You mean fluid transfer?” The gag is certainly broad, but Bullock sells it with a winning earnestness.

“Ew, disgusting,” she says after Stallone suggests doing it the old-fashioned way. (Her character being named after the author of Brave New World should give you a sense of the movie's satirical bent.) The scene where she introduces Stallone’s unfrozen-from-time meatball cop to the pleasures of “ virtual sex” remains in a class of its own. The poster teases a futuristic sci-fi showdown between Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes, which the film more or less delivers on, but the pleasures are in the margins, particularly in the utopian absurdity of the 2032 “San Angeles” setting and the performance from Bullock as 20th-century obsessive Lieutenant Lenina Huxley. With a prophetic script co-written by Heathers screenwriter Daniel Waters and sleek direction from artist turned filmmaker Marco Brambilla, Demolition Man remains one of the more underrated ‘90s action movies.

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