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Sleeper - 1973

Woody et les robots
Genre: Comedy
Run Time: 89 minutes

Film Remarks:

Sleeper is a slapstick comedy loosely set in a futuristic "Brave New World" society. Miles Monroe (Woody Allen), is the neurotic owner of the Happy Carrot Health Food Store in New York. He awakens after being thawed out of deep freeze in the year 2173, two hundred years after he went into the hospital for a "routine operation."

The country has since become a police state and the doctors who revive him ask many questions about the long-since forgotten era of history he came from. He gets enlisted by the Underground to assasinate their totalitarian leader.

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Main Cast:

• Woody Allen .... Miles Monroe
• Diane Keaton .... Luna Schlosser
• John Beck .... Erno Windt
• Mary Gregory .... Dr. Melik
• Don Keefer .... Dr. Tryon
• John McLiam .... Dr. Aragon
• Bartlett Robinson .... Dr. Orva
• Chris Forbes .... Rainer Krebs
• Mews Small .... Dr. Nero (as Marya Small)
• Peter Hobbs .... Dr. Dean
• Susan Miller .... Ellen Pogrebin
• Lou Picetti .... M.C.
• Jessica Rains .... Woman in the Mirror
• Brian Avery .... Herald Cohen
• Spencer Milligan .... Jeb Hrmthmg

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Editorial:

Writer-director Woody Allen's 1975 comedy finds the familiar Allen persona transposed to 19th-century Russia, as a cowardly serf drafted into the war against Napoleon, when all he'd rather do is write poetry and obsess over his beautiful but pretentious cousin (Diane Keaton). A total disaster as a soldier, Allen's cowardice serves him well when he hides in a cannon and is shot into a tent of French soldiers, suddenly making him a national hero. After his cousin agrees to marry him, thinking he'll be killed in a duel he miraculously survives, the couple must hatch a ludicrous plot to assassinate Napoleon in order to keep the coward Allen out of yet another war.

Allen and Keaton show what a perfect comic team they make in this film, even predating their most celebrated pairing in Annie Hall. Working so well as the most unlikely of comedies, of all things a hilarious parody of Russian literature, Love and Death is a must-see for fans of Woody Allen films.

Robert Lane from Amazon.com

Sleeper Trivia:
Many fans already know that Star Trek's Brent Spiner has a bit part in this, his first film. But did you also know....

Additional:

Budget: $2m (USA)
Gross: $18.3m (USA)
Filming Dates: May, 1973 to June, 1973