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Released
1973 · FILM

Sleeper

A bewildered health‑food store owner is revived 200 years in the future and must join a ragtag rebel group to topple an absurdly authoritarian police state before he becomes its next victim.

“Woody Allen takes a nostalgic look at the future.”

Directed by
Woody Allen
Written by
Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman
Rated
MPA · PG
Runtime
87 min
ComedySci-Fi
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

Miles Monroe, a clarinet-playing owner of a health food store, is thawed from cryostasis 200 years into the future, where he is enlisted by rebels to assist in their fight against an oppressive government regime.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by O Nicholas BrownShot by David M WalshScored by Woody AllenDesigned by Dale Hennesy

Box Office

1973 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 9.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$18.3M

Budget$2.0M
Worldwide gross$18.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Der Schläferde
  • El dormilónes
  • Woody et les Robotsfr
  • Il dormiglioneit

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