John Brent

Catch-22 -- Mike Nichols superbly directed this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy, a tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944.

Mike Nichols superbly directed this cinematic adaptation of Joseph Heller's scathing black comedy, the tale of a small group of flyers in the Mediterranean in 1944. There are winners and losers, opportunists and survivors. Separately and together, they are nervous, frightened, often profane and sometimes pathetic. Almost all are a little crazy. Catch-22 is an anti-war satire of epic proportions.

Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda ("Klute," "On Golden Pond") and Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland ("A Time to Kill," "Outbreak") star in this story about a zany group of free-wheeling outcasts set out to buck the establishment by stealing an old World War II flying boat, robbing and picking pockets to get money to make it flight-worthy, and then flying off to some distant place where there are no jails. All-star supporting cast.

Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda ('Klute,' 'On Golden Pond') and Golden Globe-winner Donald Sutherland ('A Time to Kill,' 'Outbreak') star in this story about a zany group of free-wheeling outcasts set out to buck the establishment by stealing an old World War II bomber, robbing and picking pockets to get money to make it flight-worthy, and then flying off to some distant place where there are no jails. All-star supporting cast.