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Sleeper | 
 enlarge | Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Howard Cosell, John Beck
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Sales Rank: 14657
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 87 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1000684D
ISBN: 0792846117
UPC: 027616850157
EAN: 9780792846116
ASIN: 0792846117
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1973
Release Date: July 5, 2000
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Product Description
It's Woody Allen's hilarious sci-fi romp, as a man frozen alive in 1973, wakes up 200 years later and finds himself an unlikely rebel against a totalitarian society. Diane Keaton co-stars, along with Jewish robots, killer pudding, a dictator's nose, and "a big chicken." Music by Preservation Hall Jazz Band. 88 min. Standard and Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: Spanish, French; theatrical trailer.
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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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