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Sleeper
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Product Details
- Starring: Brian Avery, John Beck (II), Howard Cosell, Chris Forbes, Mary Gregory
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- Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- EAN: 9786304196809
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- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6304196806
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- Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Release Date: 2000-07-05
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- Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1973-12-17
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- Title: Sleeper
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- UPC: 027616585837
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Product Description: 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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Customer Reviews
A classic. Must have.
For social commentary movies, this is a classic. Was this Sienfeld before Seinfeld? Self absorbed people being self absorbed...
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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