Sleeper
by Woody Allen
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Actor: Diane Keaton, Howard Cosell, John Beck, Woody AllenDirector: Woody Allen
Brand: TCFHE/MGM
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 87 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-07-05
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Summary of Sleeper
Miles Monroe has been cryogenically frozen for 100 years. When he's illegally awakened, he discovers he's a wanted criminal in world that has drastically changed from the one he left behind.If Interiors was Woody Allen's Bergman movie, and Stardust Memories was his Fellini movie, then you could say that Sleeper is his Buster Keaton movie. Relying more on visual/conceptual/slapstick gags than his trademark verbal wit, Sleeper is probably the funniest of what would become known as Allen's "early, funny films" and a milestone in his development as a director. Allen plays Miles Monroe, cryogenically frozen in 1973 (he went into the hospital for an ulcer operation) and unthawed 200 years later. Society has become a sterile, Big Brother-controlled dystopia, and Miles joins the underground resistance--joined by a pampered rich woman (Diane Keaton at her bubbliest). Among the most famous gags are Miles's attempt to impersonate a domestic-servant robot; the Orgasmatron, a futuristic home appliance that provides instant pleasure; a McDonald's sign boasting how-many-trillions served; and an inflatable suit that provides the means for a quick getaway. The kooky unthawing scenes were later blatantly (and admittedly) ripped off by Mike Myers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. --Jim Emerson
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