Sleeper Movie Review

Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton

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Miles Monroe, a nerdy health food store owner and clarinet player in Greenwich Village, goes into the hospital for minor surgery and wakes up 200 years later (2174) because the operation was botched and he was cryonically frozen. He's been "thawed" by radicals who seek to overthrow the repressive government and of course enlist his unlikely help. He's quite taken by one of the rebels, lovely Luna Schlosser, who also shows him what the future has turned out to be like: confessional robots, orgasmatrons, that sort of thing. Not too bad, really. Another of Allen's "early, funny" comedies (1973), "Sleeper" has a loose plot, more slapstick than in other Allen movies, and a ramshackle charm. Howard Cosell and Richard Nixon appear in archival footage, Jackie Mason cameos as the voice of a robot tailor, and Keaton does a decent Brando impression.
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Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzle - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%

**Fantasy or Science Fiction?** - science fiction story
Romance Yes
Repressive Society Yes
Repression: - controls your mind
Parody movie? Yes
Who's being repressed/enslaved? - humans are slaves

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Profession/status: - small businessman
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
Hair color? - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/medium curly
Body type - very skinny (man)
Events of movie makes character more... - tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality - Jewish
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor? - Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - healthy but a geeky weakling

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Female
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair style - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
How much in movie? - 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 20%
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged

Setting
Earth setting: - medium future 22-24th century
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
Tone of movie - funny
Comedy or somewhat funny movie? Yes
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - vauge references only - kissing
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE... - Jazz/r&b

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