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Watch: Sleeper 1973 123movies, Full Movie Online – Miles, a nebbishy clarinet player who also runs a health food store in NYC’s Greenwich Village, is cryogenically frozen, and brought back – 200 years in the future, by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempt to overthrow the oppressive government. When he goes off on his own, he begins to explore this brave new world, which has Orgasmatron booths to replace sex and confessional robots..
Plot: Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing health food store proprietor, is revived out of cryostasis 200 years into a future world in order to help rebels fight an oppressive government regime.
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Ratings:

	7.1/10 Votes: 43,270
	100% | RottenTomatoes
	77/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 643 Popularity: 10.574 | TMDB

Reviews:

Successful Combination of Physical and Verbal Humour
In this early comedy, Woody Allen plays Miles Monroe, a twentieth century healthfood restaurant owner and jazz clarinettist who is cryogenically frozen after surgery and awoken two centuries later. The America of 2173 is a totalitarian state ruled by an oppressive dictator, and Miles has been reanimated by a group of rebels fighting to overthrow the government. For reasons too complex to set out here, Miles is forced to go on the run disguised as a robot and finds himself falling in love with his new owner, an attractive but intellectually vacant young woman named Luna. The film recounts how Miles wins Luna over to the rebel cause and tells the story of their fight against the regime.

Unlike some of Woody’s later films, this is a pure comedy. It does not try to explore philosophical issues or to analyse the human condition in the same way as, say, “Hannah and her Sisters” or “Crimes and Misdemeanours”. Although I normally think of Woody as a master of verbal wit, much of the humour in “Sleeper” is physical slapstick, based upon (and no doubt deliberate homage to) the comedians of the silent era such as Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. (I particularly liked the scenes where Woody is disguised as a robot and those where the villains are attempting to clone the dictator, killed in a bomb explosion, from his nose). The links with that era are reinforced by the musical score, composed by Woody himself, in a jazz/ragtime style reminiscent of the 1910s and 1920s. The sets, by contrast, are very futuristic, with the clinical glass-and-chromium look of many science-fiction films. The combination of a futuristic theme with a traditional style of comedy is doubtless why the film was advertised under the slogan “Woody Allen takes a nostalgic look at the future”.

This is not, however, simply a pastiche of silent humour like the one Mel Brooks was to attempt a few years later in “Silent Movie”. This being a Woody Allen film, there is also a good deal of verbal humour, particularly one-liners along the lines of “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”. (As that line suggests, Miles is the typical, neurotically insecure Woody Allen character). As is often the case with humorous science-fiction (such as Douglas Adams’s “Hitchhiker” books), the humour is frequently used to make satirical points about twentieth-century society as seen from the viewpoint of an imagined future. Contemporary worries about our diet are neatly satirised by a joke about how the science of two hundred years hence has proved that fatty foods and smoking are actually beneficial to health whereas what we now think of as healthfoods are regarded as unhealthy. This joke has remained topical because anxiety about what we eat is, if anything,even greater today than it was in 1973. There is perhaps also a dig at seventies “radical chic” as the vacuous conformist Luna becomes an equally vacuous revolutionary. (The plot of “Sleeper” seems to owe something to another tongue-in-cheek science-fiction film from a few years earlier, “Barbarella”, which also dealt with rebellion against a dictator and even featured similar “orgasmatron” machines; the star of that film, Jane Fonda, had by 1973 become Hollywood’s most famous radical chic actress).

The humour of “Sleeper” is often directed against figures from the sixties and seventies- perhaps too much so, as this type of humour tends to date very quickly. Some of it is still funny (such as Diane Keaton’s Marlon Brando impersonation), but some can now be difficult to understand, particularly for non-Americans. (I had no idea, for example, who Howard Cosell was- apparently he was a sports commentator). That is, however, a minor quibble. Overall, this is an entertaining film and, in places, very funny, combining successfully two very different styles of humour. 7/10

Not a sleeper at all, in fact it’s quite brilliant
Not among my favourites of Woody Allen’s films, but among his better ones and a contender for his best and most polished film pre-Annie Hall. The last third is not quite as good as the rest, not as fun and the pace is a little draggy in spots. However if you love Woody Allen you will love Sleeper, it is one of his funniest films and along with The Purple Rose of Cairo one of his most accessible too, non-fans even might like it too. Visually it is perhaps his most polished pre-Annie Hall film and unlike some of his earlier films like What’s Up Tiger Lily? there is a sense he was finding his voice(which he properly found in Annie Hall). The jazz score is wonderfully soulful and seductive, the story goes at a very brisk pace(if there is any Woody Allen film that you’d call “boring”, a word I hate using when reviewing films, Sleeper would definitely not be it), and the surrealistic quality it adopts is hypnotic and is not misplaced at all. The script and gags are among Allen’s funniest(laugh-a-minute quality) and to the point, the part where Allen disguises himself as a robot is definitely a stand-out and ranks among the funniest he’s ever done. The dialogue is brilliantly witty and very quotable. Viewers will also enjoy the homages to past great comedians like Chaplin and Keaton as well. Allen directs assuredly and gives a great comedic performances that ranks among his best, and Diane Keaton’s is one of her most alluring and charming, her comic timing not disappointing either. Overall, quite brilliant, not quite among Allen’s masterpieces but it does ranks among the better end of his filmography. 9/10 Bethany Cox

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 29 min (89 min)
Budget 2000000
Revenue 18344729
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director Woody Allen
Writer Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Actors Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, John Beck
Country United States
Awards 2 wins & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panavision Camera and Lenses
Laboratory DeLuxe, USA
Film Length 2,420 m (1977) (Finland)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm