Sleeper (1973) 7.3
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government. Director:Woody Allen |
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Sleeper (1973) 7.3
A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government. Director:Woody Allen |
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Woody Allen | ... | ||
Diane Keaton | ... | ||
John Beck | ... |
Erno Windt
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Mary Gregory | ... |
Dr. Melik
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Don Keefer | ... | ||
John McLiam | ... |
Dr. Agon
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Bartlett Robinson | ... |
Dr. Orva
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Chris Forbes | ... |
Rainer Krebs
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Mews Small | ... |
Dr. Nero
(as Marya Small)
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Peter Hobbs | ... |
Dr. Dean
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Susan Miller | ... |
Ellen Pogrebin
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Lou Picetti | ... |
M.C.
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Jessica Rains | ... |
Woman in the Mirror
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Brian Avery | ... |
Herald Cohen
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Spencer Milligan | ... |
Jeb Hrmthmg
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Miles, a nebbishy clarinet player who also runs a health food store in NYC's Greenwich Village, is cryogenically frozen, and brought back - 200 years in the future, by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempt to overthrow the oppressive government. When he goes off on his own, he begins to explore this brave new world, which has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
I think I am going to have to rank this as Woody Allen's second-best (and second-funniest) movie... after the unbeatable "Annie Hall". Even after having seen the movie 3 or 4 times I still find myself amused by some of Allen's shtick... and his rarely-demonstrated adeptness at physical comedy. So many classic physical bits: riding around in the wheelchair... eating the rubber glove... the future scientists trying to force his slack body into a futuristic vehicle. After this movie Woody started to get a little too cerebral... this was his last attempt at a just-plain-funny movie... and probably his most satisfying of his early comedies... only because there was a sort-of storyline. Woody is cryogenically frozen after a botched operation in the 1970s and is awoken 200 years later to find himself in a repressive Orwellian future. He meets up with a spoiled rich chick (Diane Keaton) and influences her (not really intentionally) into becoming a revolutionary activist.