...one of the best grown-up movies you've never seen, a wise, satirical and important story that sees several great talents realise a difficult text...

As faithful as Hill and scribe Stephen Geller are to Vonnegut's text, however, as visual spectacle it doesn't quite compare to the exuberance of the novel, which is arguably due to Hill's formalism.

About as close an adaptation to Vonnegut's humanist triumph as possible. A moving work despite its flaws.

It's a helluva lot easier to adapt, say, Stephen King than Kurt Vonnegut, yet director George Roy Hill and scripter Stephen Geller do such an exquisite job with Slaughterhouse-Five that even Vonnegut himself raved about this celluloid interpretation.