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Sleeper
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PG,1hr 28min
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December 17, 1973
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United Artists
Synopsis: In 1973, health-food store owner Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) enters the hospital for a routine gall bladder operation. When he expires on the operating table, Miles' sister requests permission to cryogenically freeze her brother's body. After 200 years, Miles is unwrapped by a group of scientists and awakens to a "brave new world" of deadening conformity, ruled with an iron fist by a never-seen leader. Miles is forced to flee for his life when the scientists -- actually a group of revolutionary activists ... Full Synopsis
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Four years before his Oscar-winning breakthrough with Annie Hall, Woody Allen was still deep in absurdist humor, and, over the course of Sleeper's 88 minutes, he wins a beauty contest, kidnaps a nose, transforms into Blanche DuBois, impersonates a robot, is strangled by a giant tape machine, battles a glob of pudding, reveals the truth about Richard Nixon, and slips on a banana peel three times his ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Miles Monroe
Luna Schlosser
Erno Windt
Dr. Melik
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