Is While You Were Sleeping actually good?

While You Were Sleeping sits in the 89.2% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 89.2% of them.

How does While You Were Sleeping compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, While You Were Sleeping lands in the 90.9% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is While You Were Sleeping's score based on?

197 calibrated reviewers stand behind While You Were Sleeping's score.

1995

global pct

89.2

Film · 1995 · Films · 1990s

While You Were Sleeping

Name: While You Were Sleeping
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1995

Scored from 197 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

89.2%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

90.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

98.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

197 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Lucy, a lonely Chicago transit worker, saves the life of a handsome commuter she has secretly admired from afar. When he ends up in a coma, a hospital mix-up leads his family to believe she is his fiancee, and she goes along with the ruse. Complications mount as she grows close to his warm, welcoming family - and especially his perceptive brother Jack.

While You Were Sleeping is a 1995 comedy, drama and romance film. Its comedy subtype is Romcom.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 5,116 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 4,081 1990s films, not against the whole corpus. 197 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 216 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is While You Were Sleeping (1995) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 197
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1990s

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