The best Kurt Vonnegut adaptations
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- DirectorKeith GordonStarsNick NolteSheryl LeeTony RobinowAn American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
- DirectorGeorge Roy HillStarsMichael SacksRon LeibmanEugene RocheBilly Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He 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.Cannes Film Festival winner - Jury Prize
Cannes Film Festival nomination (Palme d'Or)
Golden Globe Award nomination (Most Promising Newcomer - Michael Sacks) - DirectorBruce PittmanStarsSean AstinMiranda de PencierEugene LevyIn a distant future, egalitarianism has created a truly equal state. The cost? The sacrifice of everything great about humankind. The question: is peace worth the price?
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsCaitlin HartLes PodewellAaron FreemanFrom a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. Christopher Walken is a shy hardware store employee. But whenever he takes a part in a local amateur theater production, he becomes the part completely--while on stage. Susan Sarandon is new in town, a lonely itinerant telephone company employee. On a whim, she auditions for and gets the part of Stella to Walken's Stanley when the theater group does A Streetcar Named Desire. Before anyone realizes the growing affection between Helene and Stanley, she falls deeply in love with the sexy brute, not knowing what the real man is like.Venice Film Festival invitational screening
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsStan ShawRosemary LeachRicco RossEmmy Award winner - Outstanding Children's Program
- DirectorFred BarzykStars'Cousin Brucie' MorrowDortha DuckworthWilliam HickeyA poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world. (These scenarios are all derived from the novels and short stories of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., including Cat's Cradle, Welcome to the Monkey House, Harrison Bergeron, and Happy Birthday, Wanda June).
- DirectorAlan RudolphStarsBruce WillisNick NolteAlbert FinneyA rich car dealer is losing his mind. His son lives in the bomb shelter. His suicidal wife has an affair with his transvestite sales manager.Berlin International Film Festival nomination (Golden Bear)
- DirectorWill TullyStarsHeather LongJack SerinoBradley Upton
- DirectorMark RobsonStarsRod SteigerSusannah YorkGeorge GrizzardA family reacts to the return of the patriarch who abandoned them seven years prior.
- StarsKurt Vonnegut Jr.Len CariouKaj-Erik EriksenAn anthology series focusing on various stories from Kurt Vonnegut's acclaimed collection "Welcome to the Monkey House". The stories blend elements of black humor, satire, and science fiction.
- DirectorChandler TuttleStarsJames CosmoJulie HagertyArmie HammerA short film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, 2081 depicts a dystopian future in which, thanks to the 212th Amendment to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the United States Handicapper General, everyone is "finally equal...." The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage of their brains. It is a poetic tale of triumph and tragedy about a broken family, a brutal government, and an act of defiance that changes everything. Featuring an original score performed by the world-renowned Kronos Quartet (Requiem for a Dream) and narration by Academy Award Nominee Patricia Clarkson (Far From Heaven, Goodnight and Good Luck), 2081 stars James Cosmo (Braveheart, Trainspotting), Julie Hagerty (Airplane!, What About Bob?) and Armie Hammer (The Social Network).
- DirectorJohn BadhamArnold LavenStarsRex HarrisonBill BixbyLloyd BochnerPilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic. In this pilot, there were three different segments: in the first, a computer falls in love with its programmer; in the second, a World War II vet falls in love with a murderer; in the third, a woman falls in love with a penniless painter.
- DirectorSteven PaulStarsJerry LewisMadeline KahnMarty FeldmanA rich, beautiful couple give birth to deformed alien twins who, when their heads are together, are the smartest kids on the planet.