Kurt Vonnegut
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Robert B. Weide
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Bernard Vonnegut
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Edie Vonnegut
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Mark Vonnegut
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Morely Safer
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Linda Weide
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Sidney Offit
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Jerome Klinkowitz
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David L. Ulin
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Daniel Simon
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Sam Waterston
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Kurt Vonnegut | Robert B. Weide | Bernard Vonnegut | |||
Edie Vonnegut | Mark Vonnegut | Morely Safer | |||
Linda Weide | Sidney Offit | Jerome Klinkowitz | |||
David L. Ulin | Daniel Simon | Sam Waterston |
Kurt Vonnegut | Robert B. Weide | ||
Bernard Vonnegut | Edie Vonnegut | ||
Mark Vonnegut | Morely Safer | ||
Linda Weide | Sidney Offit | ||
Jerome Klinkowitz | David L. Ulin | ||
Daniel Simon | Sam Waterston |
The film began 39 years ago when young, fledging filmmaker Robert Weide (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth) wrote a letter to his literary idol proposing a documentary on Vonnegut’s life and work. Shooting began in 1988, and the resulting film reflects the friendship and bond Weide and Vonnegut formed over the decades. In the film, past, present, and future cease to become linear as Weide strives to get an overview of his subject’s life and his own role in it. Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time is first and foremost a biography of a beloved American author. But it also documents a filmmaker’s odyssey as he examines the impact of a writer’s legacy on his own life, extending far beyond the printed page.