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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 5, 2000
- Originally Released: 1973
- Label: Mgm (Video & Dvd)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Woody Allen & Diane Keaton | |
Performer: | John Beck, Marya Small, Bartlett Robinson, Peter Hobbs & Brian Avery | |
Featured: | Mary Gregory | |
Directed by | Woody Allen | |
Edited by | Ralph Rosenblum | |
Screenwriting by | Woody Allen & Marshall Brickman | |
Composition by | Woody Allen | |
Cinematography by | David M. Walsh | |
Art Direction by | Dianne Wager | |
Produced by | Jack Grossberg |
Entertainment Reviews:
Plenty of one-liners, and it has the best banana-skin joke in film history.
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Time Out
Rating: B- --
The mild comedy antics are zany and the sci-fi parody is mostly pleasant.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: A- --
Chaos is a bullet that rips through "Sleeper," which helps to make it the silly, freakish hit that it is.
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Bangor Daily News (Maine)
Allen's investigation of a "cosmic screwing" registers Kubrickian sci-fi
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CinePassion
[The film] evokes the physical humor of Hal Roach comedies, and Allen even tips his hat to Charlie Chaplin's MODERN TIMES.
Premiere
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Sleeper is the closest Allen has come to classic slapstick-and-chase comedy, and he's good at it.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rest assured that Allen makes the most of the potentially vast comedy vistas the premise permits.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Product Description:
The sci-fi satire SLEEPER is often hailed as the best of Woody Allen's early comedies, which relied mostly on slapstick and quick verbal asides, but still had more than their share of comic intelligence. SLEEPER tells the tale of Miles Monroe (Allen), who is accidentally cryogenically frozen following a minor operation. Released 200 years later, in 2173, Miles blunders his way through a bizarre future, featuring plenty of props and situations for Allen to mine for laughs. Eventually he meets vapid, hedonistic "poet" Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton), with whom he eventually joins a rebel group opposed to the oppressive government. As in his earlier BANANAS and LOVE AND DEATH, Allen's character stumbles into a revolutionary plot, revealing the anti-authoritarianism that will appear again and again in his films.
Loosely based on H.G. Wells' novel WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES, the film features a strong parodic bent, particularly of the type of science fiction that was being written and filmed when it was made in 1973. Oppressive, faceless governments and the technological dominance over human life (altering even the most fundamental natural actions, such as sex) are the main tropes Allen skewers, as well as playing off the futuristic production design of films like A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and THX-1138. However, SLEEPER was still considered a strong work of science fiction, winning both the prestigious Hugo and Nebula Awards, which are given to the finest works in the genre.
Loosely based on H.G. Wells' novel WHEN THE SLEEPER WAKES, the film features a strong parodic bent, particularly of the type of science fiction that was being written and filmed when it was made in 1973. Oppressive, faceless governments and the technological dominance over human life (altering even the most fundamental natural actions, such as sex) are the main tropes Allen skewers, as well as playing off the futuristic production design of films like A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and THX-1138. However, SLEEPER was still considered a strong work of science fiction, winning both the prestigious Hugo and Nebula Awards, which are given to the finest works in the genre.
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- UPC: 027616850157
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