1973 · comedy · sci-fi
Sleeper
Directed by Woody Allen1h 27m1973
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.
Our read: Sleeper (1973) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive comedy · sci-fi entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- inventive
- funny
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