Sleeper
Sleeper is a 1973 futuristic science fiction comedy film,
written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, and
directed by Allen. The plot involves the adventures of the
owner of a health food store who is cryogenically frozen
in 1973 and defrosted 200...
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Sleeper
Sleeper is a 1973 futuristic science fiction comedy film,
written by Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, and
directed by Allen. The plot involves the adventures of the
owner of a health food store who is cryogenically frozen
in 1973 and defrosted 200 years later in an ineptly-led
police state. The film contains many elements which
parody notable works of science fiction.
Plot
Miles Monroe, a jazz musician and owner of the 'Happy
Carrot' Health-Food store in 1973, is subjected to
cryopreservation without his consent, and not revived for
200 years.[2]
The scientists who revive him are members
of a rebellion: 22nd-century America seems to be
a police state ruled by a dictator about to implement a
secret plan known as the "Aries Project". The rebels
hope to use Miles as a spy to infiltrate the Aries Project,
because he is the only member of this society without a
known biometric identity.
The authorities discover the scientists' project, and arrest them. Miles escapes by disguising
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