Sleeper (Blu-ray) PG
Woody Allen takes a nostalgic look at the future.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 27 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 15, 2013
- 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:
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
The film is loaded with throwaway literacy and broad slapstick, and while it fumbles the end, the parade of verbal and visual amusement is pleasant as long as it lasts.
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Variety
Plenty of one-liners, and it has the best banana-skin joke in film history.
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Time Out
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Like most of Allen's movies, this one is better than the box-office receipts would indicate; it still looks good many years after it was shot.
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TV Guide
Rest assured that Allen makes the most of the potentially vast comedy vistas the premise permits.
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Los Angeles Free Press
...[A] satire on American mores through a gleeful parody of a genre...
Sight and Sound
[A] brilliant satire set in some future utopia.
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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.