Slaughterhouse Five

Slaughterhouse Five
by George Roy Hill

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Actor: Eugene Roche, Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine
Director: George Roy Hill
Brand: Universal
Cinematographer: Miroslav Ondr?cek
Editor: Dede Allen
Producer: Jennings Lang
Producer: Paul Monash
Writer: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Writer: Stephen Geller
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios

Movie Reviews of Slaughterhouse Five

Movie Review: So it goes
Summary: 5 Stars

Making a visual representaion of a novel is always a challenge. Make it a Kurt Vonnegut novel and it only gets 10 times harder. Therefore I didn't get my expectations up when I decided to watch the film version of Slaughterhouse Five.

However, I was surprised at how well this film did covering such an in depth novel. I found this to be a wonderful portrayal of Pilgrim's extraordinary experiences along with the emotions and the confusion associated with it.

I still do recommend reading the book first since the film does skip a lot of the best phrases, verses, and concepts that make the story so great. Yet the film is a real tribute to a wonderful story.

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Summary of Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt vonneguts billy pilgrim time-trips from bombed-out dresden to the planet tralfamador. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/25/2004 Starring: Michael Sacks Kevin Conway Run time: 104 minutes Rating: R Director: George Roy Hill

Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) has a problem with time: he keeps jumping about in his own life, principally between three key scenes. The "present" is a kind of glowing suburban bliss involving a dutiful wife, large house, and presidency of the local Lions; the "past" is being a prisoner of World War II and experiencing the firebombing of Dresden from the wrong side; the "future" takes place in a glass dome on the planet Tralfamadore, to which Billy has been mysteriously spirited along with the woman of his fantasies (Montana Wildhack, played by Valerie Perrine). It isn't meant to make too much sense, since the point is to represent a man (and a century) that has witnessed things too unbearable for a wholly sane person to make sense of. In fact author Kurt Vonnegut's anguished cry on the insanity of war is one of those completely unfilmable books, so director George Roy Hill gets points even for trying. The whole package is thought provoking in a wholly Vonnegutian way. All this, and Glenn Gould playing Bach as well. --Richard Farr

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