Saturday, February 21, 2009

Sleeper

Sleeper. 1973 United Artists, owned and distributed now by MGM.
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Maria Small, Susan Miller, Douglas Rain (voice only)
Director: Woody Allen
Buy Sleeper at Amazon.

Did you ever wake up one morning and realize that you missed the last 200 years?

Miles Monroe (Allen) is a jazz musician and health-food store owner from Manhattan in 1973 who is cryogenically frozen without consent, and revived two hundred years later. The scientists responsible are part of an underground movement, as 22nd century America seems to be a police state ruled by a dictator, who is about to implement a secret plan called the "Aries Project". Miles is revived because since he has no identity or record of being alive in 2173, he could be used to infiltrate the Aries Project. After the authorities learn of the scientists' plans, they are arrested, and Miles escapes by disguising himself as a robot, going to work as a butler in the house of socialite Luna Schlosser (Keaton), who learns one day that her robot servant is a little too human. A frightened Luna threatens to turn Miles in, but he kidnaps her instead, and they go on the run, searching for the Aries Project.

Recommended movie.

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