Sleeper (1973)
Miles Monroe is a jazz musician and owner of the “Happy Carrot” health-food store in New York City’s Greenwich Village. He went into the hospital in 1973 for a routine operation, which went wrong, leaving him relegated to 200 years of anonymous cryopreservation. Two scientists in the year 2173 illegally revive him. They are members of an underground rebellion at odds with the police state the United States had become after the massive destruction caused when “a man named Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead.”. It is ostensibly ruled by a dictator known only as “The Leader”, and about to implement a secret plan known as the “Aries Project”. The rebels hope to use Miles as a spy to infiltrate and derail it, as he is the only member of the dystopian society without a known biometric identity.
The authorities grow suspicious and arrive in force to question the scientists, who are arrested and taken to have their brains “simplified”. Miles escapes by disguising himself as a robot, which is then randomly delivered to work in the home of idle socialite Luna Schlosser.
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Diane Keaton
Don Keefer
John BeckMiles Monroe is a jazz musician and owner of the “Happy Carrot” health-food store in New York City’s Greenwich Village. He went into the hospital in 1973 for a routine operation, which went wrong, leaving him relegated to 200 years of anonymous cryopreservation. Two scientists in the year 2173 illegally revive him. They are members of an underground rebellion at odds with the police state the United States had become after the massive destruction caused when “a man named Albert Shanker got hold of a nuclear warhead.”. It is ostensibly ruled by a dictator known only as “The Leader”, and about to implement a secret plan known as the “Aries Project”. The rebels hope to use Miles as a spy to infiltrate and derail it, as he is the only member of the dystopian society without a known biometric identity.
The authorities grow suspicious and arrive in force to question the scientists, who are arrested and taken to have their brains “simplified”. Miles escapes by disguising himself as a robot, which is then randomly delivered to work in the home of idle socialite Luna Schlosser.
