Sleeper Movie Review
Sleeper Review
"Sleeper" Overview

Rating: PG
1973
Cast and Crew
Director : Woody AllenProducer : Jack Grossberg
Screenwiter : Woody Allen,Marshall Brickman
Starring : Woody Allen,Diane Keaton,John Beck,Mary Gregory,Don Keefer,John McLiam
Pound for pound and minute for minute, Sleeper may just have more laughs in it
than any other Woody Allen movie. The unabashed '70s flick has a cryogenically
frozen Miles (Allen) waking up after 200 years to find that the future is a
mess -- well, sort of -- and that everything he knows is wrong. (Sample update,
when a future historian shows Miles a video of Howard Cosell talking, he says,
"We weren't sure at first what to make of this, but we developed a theory: we
feel that when people committed great crimes against the state, they were
forced to watch this." Miles agrees.)
There's a plot involving the overthrow of a totalitarian regime -- but hey,
this place doesn't look too bad to me -- but mostly this is a hysterical
platform for Allen to poke fun at the sexual revolution of the '70s by
forecasting it to its absurd and illogical conclusion. In the future, Diane
Keaton's Luna has a Ph. D. in oral sex, and Orgasmatron machines take care of
our needs better than people do. Oh, and the robots are hilarious.
Reviewer: Christopher Null





