Cinema: 2173 and All That

SLEEPER

Directed by WOODY ALLEN Screenplay by WOODY ALLEN and MARSHALL BRICKMAN

Woody Allen has seen the future —and it doesn't work any better than the present. In Sleeper, having undergone an unsuccessful operation for a peptic ulcer, he is wrapped in tin foil and cryogenically preserved. Two hundred years hence he is heated 'n' served in an America that has managed to preserve only that which is ghastly in our own culture: a political leader who only appears before the public mouthing pious platitudes on TV, Rod McKuen's poetry, Walter Kean's paintings,...

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