Of Mice and Men (1992)
Average Rating: 8/10
Reviews Counted: 26
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 1
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Average Rating: 8.9/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 1
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Gary Sinese directed this respectful re-telling of John Steinbeck's classic novel, with Sinese as the wily George and John Malkovich as the brutish, simple-minded Lennie. Set during the Depression era, the film opens as George and Lennie are running from a woman with a torn dress, who has sent a gang of ruffians to chase the two out of the county. After a long bus ride and a ten-mile walk, George and Lennie arrive at a migrant farm in California's San Joaquin Valley, where they seek work. George
Oct 2, 1992 Wide
Nov 6, 2001
MGM
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Cast
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John Malkovich
Lennie -
Gary Sinise
George -
Ray Walston
Candy -
Casey Siemaszko
Curley -
Sherilyn Fenn
Curley's Wife -
John Terry
Slim -
Richard Riehle
Carlson -
Alexis Arquette
Whitt -
Joe Morton
Crook -
Noble Willingham
Boss -
Mark Boone Jr.
Bus Driver -
Moira Harris
Girl in Red Dress -
Tuck Milligan
Mike -
David Steen
Tom -
Joe D'Angerio
Jack
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All Critics (26) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (27) | Rotten (1) | DVD (12)
Well-mounted and very traditional, Of Mice and Men honorably serves John Steinbeck's classic story of two Depression-era drifters without bringing anything new to it.
It's hard ... to believe Malkovich's shamble and gape, a simian variant on Dustin Hoffman's Rain Man.
Top CriticOf Mice and Men is a mournful, distantly heard lament for the loss of American innocence.
Happily, director/star/co-producer Gary Sinise has approached it not with the awe of an English professor, but with the practical eye of a craftsman: Here are solid characters, a taut and emotional story, a beginning, a middle and a wrenching end.
I would not have thought I could believe the line about the rabbits one more time, but this movie made me do it, as Lennie asks about the farm they'll own one day, and George says, yes, it will be just as they've imagined it.
The great pleasure of this movie is in what performers Sinise and John Malkovich, Ray Walton and others do with it; what director Sinise does with it; and, perhaps most important, what screenwriter Horton Foote does with it.
Elegant adaptation of Steinbeck's classic novel.
Superb Steinbeck adaptation that gets at the meat of the tale.
Fine, studied treatment by Gary Sinise and John Malkovich.
Like Legends of the Fall, the film blends beautiful cinematography with a Tennessee Williams-style slow-simmering narrative of loneliness and companionship
Nothing like a couple of acting gods attacking one of the classics.
Outstanding adaptation of the Steinbeck novel
Sinise has captured the magic and wonder of the first film.
Audience Reviews for Of Mice and Men
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- Lennie: Tell me about the rabbits...
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- George: Get him Lennie!
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Foreign Titles
- Des souris et des hommes (FR)
