Sleeper (1973)

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Sleeper
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Directed by	Woody Allen
Cast	Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Howard Cosell, John Beck, Brian Avery and Whitney Rydbeck
Theatrical Release	December 17, 1973
DVD Release	July 5, 2000
Running Time	87 minutes
MPAA Rating	PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
UPC Code	027616850157
Buy this item	$7.99 at Amazon.com As of Aug 21 15:04 EDT (details) 1 DVD, MGM (Video & DVD), Usually ships in 24 hours, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) Or 53 new from $6.49, 33 used from $4.72

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(69 reviews)

A classic. Must have.

For social commentary movies, this is a classic. Was this Sienfeld before Seinfeld? Self absorbed people being self absorbed... June 12, 2008

Classic Comedy

Sleeper has some great one-liners as well as some hilarious scenes. The revival of Mr. Monroe in a post-apocalyptic world is definitely one of Woody Allen's best! April 30, 2008

Sleeper

Woody Allen is Miles Monroe, owner of a health food store, frozen 200 years after entering the hospital for a routine operation. He awakens in a brave new world and must overthrow the repressive government. He is hilarious as he is in all his early films. His comedy derives from a willingness to laugh at himself. He defines comedy as "tragedy plus time." Woody was the Graucho Marx of his era. Comedy being relative, different generations laugh at different things. Would today's audiences laugh at the robot bit? Diane Keaton became his counterpart.

February 25, 2008

You mean, Bela Lugosi WASN'T the Mayor of New York City?

Sleeper is one of Woody Allen's funniest movies of all time. He plays Miles Monroe, a clarinet player and proprietor of the Happy Carrot Health Food Store who dies during minor surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. Criogenically frozen, he is later brought back by a group of radicals determined that he help them overthrow the oppressive government of the future in 2073.

Woody Allen mines comedy gold from every possible complication, and he is a wonder to behold as he experiences the Orgasmatron -- the future's new replacement for actual sex. Of course, the people of this future Allen has created are as ignorant as a box of rocks, and he is able to con them with ease. Part of their ignorance of history is because so much was lost during the war "when a man named Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear device." (A comment that made New York City audiences howl with laughter!)

Diane Keaton is wonderful, as always, as the love interest on the run with Miles. "Where's the wine? Where's the seasoning?" is one of the classic lines of the film.

Sleeper is an outrageously funny film! February 16, 2008

Woody's best work

Woody Allen wakes up after being frozen for 200 years into a world that only exists in a comic's mind. This is perhaps the best of Mr. Allen's work. February 11, 2008

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