before this and the flaw slaughterhouse five be the best . but this screen adaptation of mother night be very true to the book and keep the comedy and mystery and and tragedy intent . thankfully it wasn not hollywood ized or idiotized a la the movie of breakfast of champion . another good thing about this movie be that you do not have to be familiar with the book to follow it ( a i think you do for slaughterhouse five ) . that probably true of breakfast of champion also but they do such a bad job of that youre good off just read the book and not see the movie . nick nolte do an excellent job in this film .