Movies / Sleeper (1973)
Runtime: 89 min
Countries: USA
In 1973, health-food store owner Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) enters the hospital for a routine gall bladder operation. When he expires on the operating table, Miles' sister requests permission to cryogenically freeze her brother's body. After 200 years, Miles is unwrapped by a group of scientists and awakens to a brave new world of deadening conformity, ruled with an iron fist by a never-seen leader. Miles is forced to flee for his life when the scientists -- actually a group of revolutionary activists -- are overpowered by the leader's police. He eludes the cops by pretending to be an android, and in this guise is sent to work at the home of Luna (Diane Keaton), a composer of greeting cards who thinks that the world of the future is perfect as it stands. There's more, but why spoil your fun? Sleeper is the most visual of Woody Allen's earlier films, and demonstrated a more pronounced rapport between Allen and his off- and onscreen leading lady Diane Keaton than had previously existed. The Dixieland score is performed by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Directors (1) | Credit |
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Woody Allen | ... |
Writers (2) | Credit |
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Marshall Brickman | (written by) |
Woody Allen | (written by) and |
Composers (1) | Credit |
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Woody Allen | ... |
Editors (3) | Credit |
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O. Nicholas Brown | ... |
Ralph Rosenblum | ... |
Ron Kalish | ... |
Cinematographers (1) | Credit |
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David M. Walsh | ... |
Actors (26) | Credit |
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Albert Popwell | Reprogramming Scientist (uncredited) |
Bartlett Robinson | Dr. Orva |
Brian Avery | Herald Cohen |
Chris Forbes | Rainer Krebs |
Diane Keaton | Luna Schlosser |
Don Keefer | Dr. Tryon |
Douglas Rain | Evil Computer / Various Robot Butlers (voice) (uncredited) |
George Furth | Guest at Luna's Party (uncredited) |
Howard Cosell | Himself (on Wide World of Sports) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Jackie Mason | Robot Tailor (voice) (uncredited) |
Jessica Rains | Woman In The Mirror |
John Beck | Erno Windt |
John Cannon | Various Voice-Overs (voice) |
John McLiam | Dr. Aragon |
Laurence Kirchmar | McDonald's Kid (uncredited) |
Lou Picetti | M.C. |
Mary Gregory | Dr. Melik |
Mews Small | Dr. Nero (as Marya Small) |
Peter Hobbs | Dr. Dean |
Regis Cordic | Party Guest (uncredited) |
Richard Nixon | Himself (Checkers speech, discloses his personal finances) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
Spencer Milligan | Jeb Hrmthmg |
Stanley Ross | Sears Swiggles |
Susan Miller | Ellen Pogrebin |
Whitney Rydbeck | Janus (uncredited) |
Woody Allen | Miles Monroe |