Rent Slaughterhouse Five (1972)
3.3 of 5 from 104 ratings
1h 39min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) is an ordinary World War II soldier with one major exception: he has mysteriously become unstuck in time. Billy goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.
- Actors:
- Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine, Holly Near, Perry King, Kevin Conway, Friedrich von Ledebur, Ekkehardt Belle, Sorrell Booke, Roberts Blossom, John Dehner, Gary Waynesmith, Richard Schaal, Gilmer McCormick, Stan Gottlieb, Karl-Otto Alberty, Henry Bumstead, Lucille Benson
- Directors:
- George Roy Hill
- Producers:
- Paul Monash
- Writers:
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Stephen Geller
- Aka:
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Collections:
- All the Twos: 1972-2012, Top 10 Films of 1972, WWII Films: Beaches, Oceans and Camps, WWII Films: The Battle of Britain & In the Air
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 26/06/2017
- Run Time:
- 103 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- None
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (1) of Slaughterhouse Five
misleading reputation - Slaughterhouse Five review by JG
An enjoyable watch, much easier than the book. My problem with both is that the story is described as being about the bombing of Dresden. It isn't. It is a science fiction story about a character who time travels back and forth in time and extra-terrestrially much of his experience being in WWII. The bombing of Dresden is an episode not the subject of the film. Ignoring the reputation helps to see the film as what it is, a science fiction story about time travel with some philosophical overtones.
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