Sleeper (1973) on Netflix
Miles Monroe, a store owner and jazz clarinetist, is frozen in 1973 and wakes two centuries later in a totalitarian state. Rebels want him to spy on a secret government project.
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Plot summary
Miles Monroe runs the Happy Carrot, a health food store in Greenwich Village, and plays jazz clarinet on the side. A routine ulcer operation in 1973 goes wrong, and his body is frozen and forgotten for two hundred years. Two scientists illegally revive him in 2173, in a country that has become a police state and lost the records of its past. They belong to an underground rebellion that wants Miles to infiltrate a secret government plan called the Aries Project, since he has no biometric identity in this world and knows nothing the state can use. When the authorities grow suspicious, Miles escapes in a robot disguise and is delivered to the home of Luna Schlosser, an idle socialite who is not sympathetic to the rebels.
Cast
- Chris Forbesas Rainer Krebs
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- Susan Milleras Ellen Pogrebin
- Lou Picettias M.C.
- Jessica Rainsas Woman in the Mirror
- Stanley Rossas Sears Swiggles
- John Cannonas Various Voice-Overs (voice, uncredited)
- Myron Cohenas Robot Tailor (uncredited)
- Regis Cordicas Party Guest (uncredited)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sleeper (1973)
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- The Mile Hi Church of Religious Science in Lakewood, Colorado, was turned into a futuristic McDonald's for the film, complete with a sign counting the number of burgers sold: 795 followed by 51 zeroes.
- Much of the film's lively Dixieland-style jazz soundtrack was performed by members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and Allen, an amateur clarinetist with a regular weekly gig with the "Ragtime Rascals" at Michael's Pub in midtown Manhattan, sat in with them.
- Author Christopher Turner has suggested that the orgasmatron, the electromechanical device that Monroe encounters in the film, was a parody of Wilhelm Reich's orgone accumulator.
- In a 2007 interview Allen stated that Sleeper was made as a tribute to the comedian Bob Hope, whom he deeply admired.
