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As an adolescent enthralled by his novel Slaughterhouse-Five, Robert Weide wrote a letter to Kurt Vonnegut, proposing to make a documentary on the author. Surprisingly, Vonnegut agreed, and the two struck up a decades-long collaboration that grew into an enduring friendship and a remarkable film.
Filled with rare archival footage and interviews with family, colleagues and Vonnegut himself, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time dives into the author’s upbringing and his creative output, spanning his childhood in Indianapolis, his experience as a prisoner of war in World War II, his marriage, family and divorce, his early careers as a publicist for General Electric and a car salesman, and his long years as a struggling writer, leading to eventual superstardom in 1969 following the publication of his lightning-bolt anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five. A moving, funny, deeply personal labor of love, Weide’s long-awaited portrait offers a revelatory look into the life and work of one of the giants of American literature.
