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Catch-22
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Review
by
Alison Graham
Captain John Yossarian (Christopher Abbott) has had enough of flying missions during the Second World War, he can’t take any more of the danger and the madness. After frequent thwarted attempts to claim illness, he decides there is only one way out, to fake insanity. But there’s a catch.
Catch-22
to be exact. “That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he marvels at the medic who’s explains its complexities.
It’s probably the best known line in Joseph Heller’s magnificent satire that features an array of eye-popping characters, including the brutal, parade-obsessed Lieutenant Scheisskopf, played with gimlet-eyed fury by George Clooney (one of Catch-22’s executive producers).
Heller’s novel has been filmed, not successfully, in the past, but this version is sharp and smart (the combat sequences are vivid and terrifying) and Abbott is an excellent Yossarian – a clever, frightened man baffled and angered by the pointlessness of what he is asked to do.
Summary
Comedy drama based on Joseph Heller's seminal anti-war novel, telling the story of US Air Force bombardier Yossarian, who soon realises the real enemy are the military bureaucrats who keep increasing the number of missions he must fly. Christopher Abbott stars, with Kyle Chandler, Hugh Laurie, Tessa Ferrer and George Clooney, who also acts as executive producer and director on a couple of episodes.
Cast & Crew
Yossarian
Christopher Abbott
Scheisskopf
George Clooney
Colonel Cathcart
Kyle Chandler
Major de Coverley
Hugh Laurie
Nurse Duckett
Tessa Ferrer
Milo
Daniel David Stewart
Aarfy
Rafi Gavron
Orr
Graham Patrick Martin
Major Major
Lewis Pullman
Nately
Austin Stowell
Clevinger
Pico Alexander
McWatt
Jon Rudnitsky
Kid Sampson
Gerran Howell
Doc Daneeka
Grant Heslov
Lt Colonel Korn
Kevin J O'Connor
Marion Scheisskopf
Julie Ann Emery
Chaplain Tappman
Jay Paulson
Dunbar
Josh Bolt
Peele
Ian Toner
Mudd
Freddie Watkins
Crosby
Giacomo Rocchini
Director
Grant Heslov
Dramatised By
Luke Davies
Dramatised By
David Michod
Writer
Joseph Heller
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