Sleeper (movie)

Sleeper (1973) is a futuristic comedy losely based on the classic science fiction novel When The Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells. It was written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman and directed by Allen himself.

In the movie, health food store owner Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) is hospitalized for an ulcer operation but ends up in the liquid nitrogen tanks of an immortality institution. He is revived 200 years in the future by a subversive organization, and joins an action commando with the idle Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton in a role similar to that of Manhattan).

This early Allen movie features some memorable concepts, such as the Orgasmatron booths, confessional robots, and the cloning of vital organs. By that time, historians have developed interesting theories about Howard Cosell and Richard Nixon, which Miles doesn't have the heart to refute. Jokes include: Tailor-robots programmed to behave like Jewish salesmen and PhDs in oral sex.