Slaughterhouse-Five

Director: George Roy Hill (1972), Cast: Michael Sacks, Valerie Perrine, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Holly Near. Winner: 1972 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize Award, R 

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s classic novel comes to life in this haunting and darkly humorous film from acclaimed director George Roy Hill. Billy Pilgrim 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. “About as close an adaptation to Vonnegut’s humanist triumph as possible.” —Midwest Film Journal