Universal We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 1972, director George Roy Hill and screenwriter Stephen Geller adapted Kurt Vonnegut's celebrated novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" to the big screen, to this writer's great satisfaction. The book and the movie both told the story of Billy Pilgrim (Michael Sacks), who has suddenly and without explanation become "unstuck" in time. That is, he begins to experience his life out of chronological sequence. He begins to relive his life as a soldier during World War II when he was on the front lines in Belgium. He re-experiences his unsatisfying marriage to...