Episode 93 - While You Were Sleeping

The 1995 smash hit "While You Were Sleeping" is about a mentally
deranged woman who infiltrates the family of a man who was
violently attacked and falls into a coma by claiming that she is
his fiancée. She deceives his family into welcoming her as one of
their own and she even manages to manipulate the coma patient’s
godfather into  conspiring with her. Last but not least, she
seduces the coma victim’s unsuccessful but kinda charming brother
which could potentially destroy this happy family she so covets.


Sandra Bullock plays Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, a sad Chicago
Transit Authority worker whose only meaningful relationship was
with her recently deceased father. She fantasizes about trading
in her cat lady existence for becoming the wife of a rich
handsome lawyer who she doesn't even know. The only problem with
her dream is that it has no basis in reality and the only she can
achieve it is through disgusting treachery.


Bill Pullman plays Jack Callaghan, a
spineless ne'er-do-well who specializes in conning recently
bereaved families into selling their furniture for for a fraction
of its worth, but he aspires to make furniture rather than
harvesting it from the dead, so that makes him a nice dude or
something. He also drops everything when he meets his brother’s
fiancée and focuses all of his efforts on stealing her.


Peter Gallagher plays Peter Callaghan, a one testicled slimy
narcissistic lawyer with glamour shots of himself displayed all
over his apartment and even a few in his wallet. He is also
quasi-engaged to an evil-seeming married woman.


Peter Boyle plays Ox Callaghan, the patriarch of this family
of ghouls who delights in profiting from the personal tragedy of
others. He’s kinda the same character he played in "Everybody
Loves Raymond," but he loves to dance on people's graves.


Jack Warden plays Saul Tuttle, an old jokester who was adopted by
the Callaghan family after he lost his wife and was named the
godfather of their eldest son. He repays the favor by betraying
them and using Yiddish to criticize them.


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