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George Roy Hill's adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's whimsical antiwar black comedy-an immensely popular novel at the time of the film's release because of its implicit condemnation of the war in Vietnam-stars Michael Sacks as the placid Billy Pilgrim. He's become 'unstuck in time', as the author describes him, or more prosaically, he's had a nervous breakdown as a result of a recurrence of the trauma of witnessing the horrific Allied firebombing of Dresden in 1945. The desultory narrative has Billy jumping from his war experience to his future on the planet Tralfamadore with the buxom Montana Wildhack (Valerie Perrine), then to an episode of shock therapy, then to an episode in his childhood, and then to his life as a relatively unhappy suburban optometrist. Throughout, the naive Billy remains a curious mixture of kindness and detachment, the best combination of qualities one could have, the author seems to imply, for surviving in a world of meaningless suffering. Vonnegut's novel may be unfilmable, and Hill may have been too cautious a choice as director, but he does a good job of conveying many of the qualities of the author's elusive style. Michael Sacks possesses the requisite air of innocence for his role, and Ron Liebman gives a great performance as a choleric fellow G.I.Product Identifiers
ProducerPaul Monash
EAN5050582420746
eBay Product ID (ePID)51973329
Product Key Features
ActorValerie Perrine, Ron Leibman, Michael Sacks
Film/TV TitleSlaughterhouse Five
DirectorGeorge Roy Hill
Release Year2006
GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, General
Run Time98 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Number of Discs1
ComposerGlenn Gould
ReviewsDaily Telegraph - A marvellous excursion...the writing is pungent. The antics uproarious, the wit as sharp as a hypodermic needle.
ScreenwriterStephen Geller
AuthorKurt Vonnegut
Movie/TV TitleSlaughterhouse Five