Slaughterhouse-Five

Name: Slaughterhouse-Five
Genre: Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy, War
Released: March 15, 1972
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 66
Cast: Ekkehardt Belle, Eugene Roche, Friedrich von Ledebur, Holly Near, Kevin Conway

1972

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: March 15, 1972 | R

Starring: Ekkehardt Belle, Eugene Roche, Friedrich von Ledebur, Holly Near, Kevin Conway, Michael Sacks, Perry King, Ron Leibman, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine

Summary: A man named Billy Pilgrim tells the story of how he became unstuck in time and was abducted by aliens.

Director: George Roy Hill

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Drama, Comedy, War

Rating: R

Runtime: 104 min

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John Hartl

Captivating 1972 adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel, starring Michael Sacks as the time-tripping hero. [09 Jul 1998]

Jonathan Rosenbaum

George Roy Hill's very professional, very entertaining 1972 adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's time-traveling novel, with the pseudoprofundities nicely tucked into place as peppy one-liners and narrative tricks. Read full review

Vincent Canby

A wild, noisy, sometimes very funny film that eventually becomes as unstuck in its own exuberance as its hero, Billy Pilgrim, the Illium, N. Y., optometrist, is unstuck in time. Read full review

Empire William Thomas

Weird, but kind of cool. Read full review

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Slaughterhouse-Five is a mechanically slick, dramatically sterile commentary about World War II and afterward, as seen through the eyes of a boob Everyman. Director George Roy Hill's arch achievement emphasizes the diffused cant to the detriment of characterizations, which are stiff, unsympathetic and skin-deep. Read full review

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Occasionally Hill comes up with some nice touches of the unexpected: a few moments of black humour, the suggestion of a deliberate pastiche here and there, but on the whole he's too resolutely fashionable a director to really get behind Vonnegut's idea of time-tripping. It ends up the wrong side of unadventurous. Read full review

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eva3si0n

Nov 10, 2021

Slaughterhouse-Five satirical anti-war film exactly based on the novel George Roy Hill. For the modern viewer, he will seem boring and drawn out, also having a non-linear plot. Surialistically, both concentration camps and Soviet soldiers showed. Events with aliens generally look delusionalSlaughterhouse-Five satirical anti-war film exactly based on the novel George Roy Hill. For the modern viewer, he will seem boring and drawn out, also having a non-linear plot. Surialistically, both concentration camps and Soviet soldiers showed. Events with aliens generally look delusional like a room on another planet. And if the novel Kurt Vonnegut really turned out to be good, then its film adaptation is not very.… Expand

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