2 Movies Starring Michael Sacks

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1972-03-15

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(9004 Reviews)

Director:

George Roy Hill

Cast:

Writer:

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (novel)

Stephen Geller (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Using his own terminology, Billy Pilgrim is "unstuck in time", which means he is moving between different points in his life uncontrollably, although he is aware of it at certain of those points as witnessed by the letter to the editor he writes to the Ilium Daily News about his situation. Primarily, he is moving between three general time periods and locations. The first is his stint as a GI during WWII, when, as a pacifist, he was acting as assistant chaplain for his squad. This time is largely as a POW, where he was in Dresden the day of the bombing, spending it with among others an older compassionate GI named Edgar Derby, and a brash loudmouth GI named Paul Lazzaro. The second is his life as an optometrist in Ilium in upstate New York, eventually married to the wealthy and overbearing Valencia Merble, and having two offspring, Robert, who would spend his teenaged years as a semi-delinquent, and Barbara, who would end up much like her mother. And the third is as an abductee on the planet Tralfamadore, along with his devoted dog Spot, and Hollywood starlet Montana Wildhack - who was not averse to taking off her clothes to further her career - the Tralfamadorians who have put them on display. The more time he spends on Tralfamadore, the more he understands the meaning of what is happening to him.

The Sugarland Express

The Sugarland Express

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-04-05

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (10014 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Hal Barwood (screenplay)

Matthew Robbins (screenplay)

Steven Spielberg (story)

Hal Barwood (story)

Matthew Robbins (story)

Fullplot:

Lou-Jean, a blonde woman, tells her husband, who is imprisoned, to escape. They plan to kidnap their own child, who was placed with foster parents. The escape is partly successful, they take a hostage, who is a policeman and are pursued through to Texas...

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