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Slaughterhouse Five (1972)

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Billy Pilgrim lives his life as one not-so random existance that blurs his past as a POW, his present as a middle-aged New York optometrist and his future as a zoo resident on the planet Tralfamadore.

Oct 10, 2000

Universal Pictures

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The film captures the essence of the book even while diverging from it. Vonnegut himself always claimed to be extremely pleased with it.

October 11, 2010 Full Review Source: Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Comment

Embora consiga se manter fiel à trama e à estrutura narrativa do fabuloso livro de Vonnegut, falha por não ter força dramática e por captar apenas parcialmente a intensa mensagem anti-belicista da obra original.

February 20, 2007 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Interesting, if not fully realized, version of the Vonnegut novel.

November 26, 2003 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The best of the Vonnegut adaptations

September 20, 2002 Comment
Lawrence Journal-World
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Billy Pilgrim: It's time for me to be dead for a little while. And then live again. I give you the Tralfamadorian greeting: Hello. Farewell. Hello. Farewell. Eternally connected, eternally embracing. Hello. Farewell. "Billy Pilgrim lives- from time to time."I believe Slaughterhouse- Five to be a pretty good adaptation

August 28, 2011
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Melvin White

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This just goes to show how not all books can be adapted to film. This movie is a mess, and boring one at that. Stay away from it, and read the book instead.

September 5, 2010
ajv2688

Super Reviewer

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