Mother Night

This movie could have been better. The plot wasn't bad, but the movie itself could have been a lot better had they written a better storyline. What I mean by that is that the writers of this movie could have made... Full review

Have yet to see the movie; the book is pure genius. Read all of Vonnegut's works. Truly a great author. He will be missed.... Full review

This was a very well done period piece with plenty of drama, suspense and intrigue. I have always been a tremendous fan of Nick Nolte and of the genre itself. Additional recomendations would include: Jacob the Liar, Mulholland Falls, L.A. Confidential... Full review

If you've read Mother Night and enjoyed it so much (as I did) that you just have to see the movie, understand that you have to understand a fundamental element of Vonngut's writing - that beyond his story lies Vonnegut... Full review

At first, I hadn't read the novel so far and I hadn't hear anything about the author yet. But as I casually saw this movie, I was totally captive by the story. Already as the Jewish watchman primary said, that... Full review

It's so rare to find a literary work adequately translated to the screen that I may have rated this film higher than it deserves, but not by much. As a long-time student of Vonnegut's works, I have no hesitation in... Full review

The folk who produced this masterful film have done fine service to a novel that stands as perhaps the best fiction work centering upon human guilt and human responsibility ever published. Nolte takes the role of Howard W. Campbell, Jr.,... Full review

This movie pleasantly surprised me. It has a touching, slightly off-center approach that never loses your attention. This is a movie I never heard about, but if you want a "sleeper", this is it. Great writing, production, and acting. I... Full review

Seldom do I see a movie in which the star performs so well you can hardly believe he is an actor, but he comes across as the real guy he is portraying. I believed Nick Nolte was an American spy... Full review

I'm a rather pedestrian person, with somewhat lowbrow tastes. However, I occasionally try to raise the bar on my cultural awareness. This movie was one of my attempts. I was in awe throughout the entire movie. I liked it so... Full review

where you can take advantage of rewind to suss out the convoluted plot -....Told in flashback as Campbell awaits his war-crimes trial, the movie's loop-the-loop narrative captures Vonnegut's sense of absurdity and heavyhearted sadness extremely well..... ... Full Review

Vonnegut's dark humor missing in "Mother Night' But director Keith Gordon's understanding of the material seems to be at odds with Vonnegut's often disturbing ... Full Review

It's a wordless cameo, lasting maybe two seconds, but Gordon uses the moment in a way that does the author proud. Vonnegut is just one of many people seen walking around the story's hero, Howard W. Campbell Jr. ... Full Review

Sheryl Lee is damn nice to look at Dunst, who is talented beyond words, holds you rapt and steals the scene. Gordon can create as much tension with his camera as he does with his emotional tone. ... Full Review

Nolte's a good enough actor to call up tragic, oversized emotions with little effort, and his scenes with the superb Alan Arkin, playing a widowed neighbor who also counts himself among the ``walking wounded,'' are the best in the film. There's a lovely scene when Campbell, thinking he's lost his wife, Helga (Sheryl Lee), sits at a table with two candles and a framed picture of her, and toasts her with a glass of wine. ... Full Review

As we know, Kurt Vonnegut frequently exaggerated to make a point. Like many brilliant observers of humanity, he had his doubts about God. But like some brilliant writers, he knew a good line when he thought of it. ... Full Article

Delacorte press will release previously unpublished works by the prolific author. Kurt Vonnegut, the late author of such darkly humorous classic novels as Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse Five , will publish again. ... Full Article

According to The Associated Press, the book, entitled "look at the Birdie," will feature several new and reissued tales, including "Mother Night" "Galapagos" and "The Sirens of Titan," all by Mark Vonnegut. ... Full Article

Kurt Vonnegut wasn't the first novelist to have fun with World War II (so did Joseph Heller), but he was the first to turn the very darkness of the Holocaust into a hook, a kind of cosmic conceit for readers. ... Full Article

An unrecognized World War II hero discovers that he is not at all the man he thought he was, but the man he pretended to be in this absorbing and faithful version of Kurt Vonneguts 1961 novel. ... Full Article

He survived the bombing of Dresden in 1945 (by taking shelter in a slaughterhouse) and a suicide attempt in 1984 before time - a favorite target of his tar-black humor - finally caught up with him. ... Full Article