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Name: Slaughterhouse-Five
Released: 1972-3-25
Cast: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Valerie Perrine, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans

Slaughterhouse-Five

R
1h 43m
1972

82%

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s classic novel comes to life in this haunting and darkly humorous film from acclaimed director George Roy Hill. Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) is an ordinary World War II soldier with one major exception: he has mysteriously become unstuck in time. Billy goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden. This dazzling and thought-provoking drama co-stars Ron Leibman and Valerie Perrine.

Director:

George Roy Hill

Producer:

Paul Monash

Writer:

Stephen Geller

Cast:

Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Valerie Perrine, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Perry King, Kevin Conway

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

82%

Reviews

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Eddie Harrison

...one of the best grown-up movies you've never seen, a wise, satirical and important story that sees several great talents realise a difficult text...

As faithful as Hill and scribe Stephen Geller are to Vonnegut's text, however, as visual spectacle it doesn't quite compare to the exuberance of the novel, which is arguably due to Hill's formalism.

About as close an adaptation to Vonnegut's humanist triumph as possible. A moving work despite its flaws.

It's a helluva lot easier to adapt, say, Stephen King than Kurt Vonnegut, yet director George Roy Hill and scripter Stephen Geller do such an exquisite job with Slaughterhouse-Five that even Vonnegut himself raved about this celluloid interpretation.

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