From his home in Ilium, N.Y., optometrist Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks) narrates how he came to be “unstuck in time.” Kidnapped by aliens and living in comfort with his assigned mate, B-movie starlet Montana Wildhack (Valerie Perrine), Billy experiences the events of his life in random order, flitting between his past as an American prisoner of war in World War II, to his humdrum middle-class life in the present-day, to his future as a zoo curiosity on the planet Tralfamadore.
Welcome to our first visit to the weird, wacky, and wonderful world of beloved humanist author Kurt Vonnegut. Although Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) is not a perfect movie, it still manages to capture the novel’s essence, which is a challenging task considering the difficulty of successfully adapting Vonnegut novels. Join us as we discuss the strengths and weaknesses, including its screenplay, cast, and the marvelous direction of George Roy Hill. Listen as Johnny Has the Keys becomes unstuck in time, traveling through the eyes of Billy Pilgrim and a lifetime of lunacy and love.
SHOW LINKS:
- Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
- Original trailer
- Kurt Vonnegut
- George Roy Hill
- Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children’s Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut
- Hogan’s Heroes (1965)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
- The World According to Garp (1982)
- Arrival (2016)
- Catch-22 (1970)
- M*A*S*H (1970)
- The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
- Star Trek: The Cage (1988)
- Lost in Space: The Keeper (1966)
- Game of Thrones (2011)
- Looper (2012)
- Somewhere in Time (1980)
- The Time Traveler’s Wife (2022)
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- Dr. Who (1963)
- E.T. (1982)
- Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
- God Bless You Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut
- Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
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