Although director George Roy Hill once had the distinction of two places in the all-time box office top ten (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting), it was never on the cards that this adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's 1969 satirical fantasy Slaughterhouse-Five would make it a hat-trick.

Inspired by Vonnegut's own experiences as a survivor of the Dresden firestorm in February 1945, the novel has ironically been a frequent target of library-shelf nazis infuriated by what they view as…

Linda Hayden's cinema début has many of the trappings of a low grade exploitation movie, but director Alastair Reid (himself making the switch up from tv work) avoids that sub-genre's more gratuitous excesses, aided enormously by a solid performance from Keith Barron as the doctor who begrudgingly offers the teenage seductress sanctuary after her mother's suicide. The other two corners of this sexual hothouse are provided by Amy Lynn as the doctor's bi-curious wife (a somewhat overwrought portrayal of sexual…