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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304196809
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6304196806
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: July 05, 2000
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1973
Sales Rank: 20167
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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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I'm generally not a fan of the early "funny" Woody Allen movies. I'm sure he does them very well. I just don't have a taste for slapstick. But even I, who seem to have a big chunk of funny bone missing, can appreciate "Sleeper." It's really a funny film.
Of course it has the slapstick that I just don't get, and the slapstick is enhanced by the musical score, played by Allen's own Ragtime Rascals ensemble. Some of it is genuinely funny, others of it I can do without. But what I ... Read More
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I found it very difficult to stay awake watching much of this film and it certainly was a "sleeper" for me although a few of Allen's one-liners were actually really funny even for today's audiences although the vast majority of the film and consequently the jokes do not age well. To call this Allen's "tribute" to Keaton and Marx would actually be insulting to both whose works although a lot older than this are a lot funnier.
The picture quality is VHS quality and the sound quality ... Read More
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For social commentary movies, this is a classic. Was this Sienfeld before Seinfeld? Self absorbed people being self absorbed...
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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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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 ... Read More
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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304196809
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 6304196806
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: July 05, 2000
Running Time: 89 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 17, 1973
Sales Rank: 20167
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