A clarinet player who also runs a health food store is frozen and brought back in the future by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempts to overthrow an oppressive government. When he goes off on his own, he begins to explore this brave new world that has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots.

Sleeper (1973)
  • Rating: (19,364 votes)
  • Taglines:A love story about two people who hate each other. 200 years in the future. » Woody Allen takes a nostalgic look at the future »
  • Runtime:89 minutes
  • Director: Woody Allen
  • Country:USA
  • Actors:
    Miles Monroe
    Woody Allen
    Luna Schlosser
    Diane Keaton
    Erno Windt
    John Beck
    Dr. Melik
    Mary Gregory
    Dr. Tryon
    Don Keefer
    Dr. Aragon
    John McLiam
    Dr. Orva
    Bartlett Robinson
    Rainer Krebs
    Chris Forbes
    Dr. Nero (as Marya Small)
    Mews Small
    Dr. Dean
    Peter Hobbs
  • Genres:Comedy, Sci-Fi
  • Producers:
    Marshall Brickman
    associate producer  
    Jack Grossberg
    producer  
    Charles H. Joffe
    executive producer  
    Ralph Rosenblum
    associate producer  
    Jack Rollins
    executive producer (uncredited)  
  • Plots: A clarinet player who also runs a health food store is frozen and brought back in the future by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempts to overthrow an oppressive government. When he goes off on his own, he begins to explore this brave new world that has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots. Written by John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Sleeper
  • User's comment: by tedg (tedg@FilmsFolded.com)

    We are blessed that Woody was around, making movies as interesting as this when he was.

    Already with this one, he began his vast exploration of movie techniques and devices that would last 25 years or so.

    The idea is simple in this one: he wanted to use film slapstick from a bygone era. How better to situate that than to move the whole picture into a future era?

    We have some truly classic stuff here. The banana joke, The mirror joke. The robot pantomime. The acting out of the Jewish dinner (done in later movies too). The inflated man joke. You can find all these in any number of Keaton. Marx, Laurel & Hardy movies.

    The unifying string of time travel, a romance, the leader and his nose is too weak to make this a solidly recommended outing. And it wouldn't be for a couple years until Woody cared about the cinematography at all.

    I had forgotten how pretty Diane Keaton was. Very.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.


  • Quotes: Miles Monroe: I haven't seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian. If I'd been going all this time, I'd probably almost be cured by now. Miles Monroe: I'm what you would call a teleological, existential atheist. I believe that there's an intelligence to the universe, with the exception of certain parts of New Jersey. Luna Schlosser: I think we should have had sex, but there weren't enough people.
  • Also known as: El dormilón (Argentina), El dormilón (Mexico - imdb display title), El dormilón (Spain), El dormilón (Uruguay - imdb display title), Der Schläfer (Austria), Der Schläfer (West Germany), 200 yil sonra (Turkey - Turkish title), A hétalvó (Hungary), El dormilega (Spain - Catalan title), Il dormiglione (Italy), O Dorminhoco (Brazil), O Herói do Ano 2000 (Portugal), O ypnaras (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Povampireni Majls (Serbia - imdb display title), Sjusovaren (Sweden), Sleeper (Netherlands - informal literal title), Sleeper - mig og fremtiden (Denmark), Spioch (Poland), Unikeko (Finland), Woody et les robots (France), Yashnuni (Israel - Hebrew title),

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