SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman

Universal Pictures; Directed by George Roy Hill

Rated R; 120 minutes; 1972

The first screen adaptation of a Kurt Vonnegut novel, SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE performs the remarkable task of faithfully capturing the popular novelist's complex vision and manic black humor. Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks), a buck-toothed Everyman, living in middle class America, becomes unstuck in time. In a dazzling cascade of time and space shuttles, Billy travels to the Planet Tralfamador where he lives his future with a glamorous movie star, and bounces through past events of his life.

 

 

Reviews

"One of the most daring, original and totally fascinating pictures ever made."

— Rex Reed, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

 

 

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