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Slaughterhouse Five
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  • Rated: R
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: May 25, 2004
  • Originally Released: 1972
  • Label: Universal Studios

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User Ratings: 6,222
Rating: A- -- provocative Full Review
Old School Reviews
Jun 6, 2013
Rating: 5/5 -- The best of the Vonnegut adaptations
Lawrence Journal-World
Sep 20, 2002
About as close an adaptation to Vonnegut's humanist triumph as possible. A moving work despite its flaws. Full Review
Midwest Film Journal
Dec 17, 2019
[I]t's a finely crafted lost treasure from New Hollywood's short-lived heyday.
Uncut
Aug 1, 2005
Rating: 4/5 -- Interesting, if not fully realized, version of the Vonnegut novel.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Nov 27, 2003
Rating: 4.5/5 -- The film captures the essence of the book even while diverging from it. Vonnegut himself always claimed to be extremely pleased with it. Full Review
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Oct 11, 2010
Rating: 3.5/4 -- 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. Full Review
Film Frenzy
Dec 15, 2019

Product Description:

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 20,369
  • UPC: 025192354922
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