In this delightfully sparse but fanciful futuristic comedy, Woody Allen plays health food store owner Miles Monroe who goes to the hospital in 1973 for a routine operation and is placed on ice and awoken from hypersleep 200 years in the future.
He finds a world gone farcically awry – and worries a lot about the arrears of his Social Security payments.
To avoid capture in this Brave New World of pills and orgasm machines, Miles has to pose as a robot slave when dingy socialite Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) gives a dinner party.
After finally revealing his true identity to her, he kidnaps her and they go on the run, fall in love, and she becomes a born-again rebel.
Woody eventually revives the long-forgotten idea of love and wins Keaton over, even when his wooing at a farm full of monstrous vegetables and animals is subject to constant comic interruptions.
It’s probably Woody Allen’s tightest, most disciplined work to date.
Miles Monroe
Woody Allen Luna Schlosser
Diane Keaton Erno Windt
John Beck Doctor Melik
Mary Gregory Doctor Tryon
Don Keefer Doctor Agon
Don Mcliam Doctor Orva
Bartlett Robinson Rainer Krebs
Chris Forbes Doctor Nero
Marya Small Doctor Dean
Peter Hobbs Ellen Pogrebin
Susan Miller M.C.
Lou Picetti Herald Cohen
Brian Avery Jeb
Spencer Milligan
Director
Woody Allen
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