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Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
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From Time Out Film Guide
A curiosity, really. A slight and conservative adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's tale about a man whose time sense is dislocated: his wartime past, which includes being bombed in Dresden, his American bourgeois present as an optometrist, and his sci-fi fantasy future on the planet Tralfamadore, develop as three concurrent narratives. 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.Author: CPe
Cast & crew
Producer: Paul Monash
Cast: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine, Roberts Blossom, Sorrell Booke, John Dehner, Perry King, Friedrich Ledebur full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 103 mins
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