When fans heap
praise on recent Woody Allen films like To
Rome With Love or even last year's Midnight
in Paris it might be because they've forgotten the anarchic hilarity of his
earlier comedies, like Sleeper (1973). If Philip K. Dick
wrote slapstick comedy it might resemble this story of a Manhattan health food
store owner (played by Allen), who suffers a cryogenics mishap and wakes up 200
years in the future, where rebels against the reigning dictatorship enlist him
in their cause.