“Listen: Billie Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.” Slaughterhouse-Five is an award-winning 1972 film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel of the same name. Director Hill faithfully renders for the screen Vonnegut’s obsessive story of Pilgrim, who survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden, then lives simultaneously in his past, present, and future.

Four criminals from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of unstable nitroglycerin across dangerous jungle.