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Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Cast

  • roberts blossom movies
    Roberts Blossom
    as Wild Bob Cody
  • john dehner movies
    John Dehner
    as Prof. Rumfoord
  • perry king movies
    Perry King
    as Robert Pilgrim
  • valerie perrine movies
    Valerie Perrine
    as Montana Wildhack
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Genres & Description

Comedy Drama Sci-Fi War

6.9 / 10

Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time", which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation. Primarily, he is moving between three general time periods and locations. The first is his stint as a GI during WWII, when, as a pacifist, he was acting as a Chaplain's assistant for his unit. This time is largely as a POW, where he was in Dresden the day of the bombing, spending it with among others an older compassionate GI named Edgar Derby, and a brash loudmouth GI named Paul Lazzaro. The second is his life as an optometrist in Ilium in upstate New York, eventually married to the wealthy and overbearing Valencia Merble, and having two offspring, Robert, who would spend his teen-aged years as a semi-delinquent, and Barbara, who would end up much like her mother. And the third is as an abductee on...

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Earl Victorine
Great movie. Could be the best war movie ever made. - @Saturday, April 28, 2018 7:08 AM

mac2phin
Henry Bumstead as Elliott Rosewater: Why? - @Monday, April 23, 2018 7:15 AM

patrick kever
great movie - @Wednesday, August 23, 2017 11:17 PM

Tom Briggs
Being unstuck in time is Vonnegut's metaphoric representation of PTSD flashbacks. - @Monday, July 17, 2017 10:49 PM

Jimvanhise
One of the best scenes in the film is not in the book, the scene when Billy's wife hears he's in the hospital and she races there in their car, having multiple accidents along the way, damaging the car severely and arriving at the hospital where she collapses and dies from carbon monoxide poisoning (the commentary above even says that she dies, so no spoiler there). Even Vonnegut liked that scene as its irony fits into the film perfectly. - @Wednesday, June 21, 2017 12:44 AM

antonio carlos mendes americano
Billy Pilgrim, one of the best figures on the movies! - @Monday, June 5, 2017 2:57 AM

Zaroff's Trophy Room
zen... - @Saturday, October 29, 2016 4:12 PM

TheSquidNinja
been listening to the audio book at work, can't wait to finish and watch this - @Friday, July 8, 2016 1:11 PM

Jack Grattan
I haven't seen this in decades, but it sure stayed with me. A very on target review. - @Saturday, January 24, 2015 10:38 PM

Jim Fitzpatrick
I ADORE this film.  Well done. - @Tuesday, October 21, 2014 4:00 PM

Jeffrey Coogan
Kurt Vonnegut was actually in a German P.O.W camp during WW2.  - @Monday, June 23, 2014 11:30 PM

richard murphy
WOW Glenn Gould, Rock Hudson is the voice Rock did some excellent sci-fi - @Friday, April 11, 2014 11:46 PM

Steve Chaput
I haven't seen this film in years, but loved it the couple of times I saw it first in the theater and later on VHS.  I seem to recall reading a couple of years ago that there was talk of a remake, which I hope doesn't take place.  A modern director would probably go more for the comedy aspects with Ben Stiller in the lead. - @Tuesday, December 3, 2013 10:21 PM

Robert Scott
I always associate this film with Little Big Man... passive nebbish leads going through a catalog of tragicomedy events, with non-traditional scoring that makes the film feel more modern.   - @Monday, November 18, 2013 12:17 PM

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